Postdoctoral scholar of Learning Analytics Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and fellow members of the research advisory board of the Pablove Foundation (a U.S. pediatric cancer nonprofit organization) recently published "A case study of charitable investment impact assessment" in The Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing. The article highlights ways in which novel evaluation strategies have substantial promise in documenting the outcomes of seed grant funding and how journal impact factors can serve as a proxy for intellectual contributions to science.
