Cross, Jennifer Eileen, Ellyn Dickmann, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, et al

Cross, Jennifer Eileen, Ellyn Dickmann, Rebecca Newmann-Gonchar, and Jesse Michael Fagan. 2009. Using Mixed-Method Design and Network Analysis to Measure Development of Interagency Collaboration. American Journal of Evaluation Vol. 30, no. 3 (September): 310-329. http://aje.sagepub.com/content/30/3/310.abstract (accessed 17 August 2011).

This article uses a mixed-methods approach including network analysis to examine the changes in interagency collaboration in one site funded by the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (SS/HS). Results of the evaluation demonstrated that although intraproject collaboration peaked in the middle of the grant and began to decline during the last year, interagency collaborations continued to grow during the last year of the grant. These results illustrate how network data can easily be collected and used to assess the development of interagency relationships.