EvaluATE Blog

May 27, 2020 | Ada Haynes

Evaluating Critical Thinking Skills

Like many of you, I wear multiple professional hats. Critical thinking skills are at the nexus of all my roles. The importance...

March 18, 2020 | Lori Wingate

Strategies and Sources for Interpreting Evaluation Findings to Reach Conclusions

Imagine: You’re an evaluator who has compiled lots of data about an ATE project. You’re preparing to present the results to stakeholders. You have many beautiful charts and compelling stories...

February 19, 2020 | Aeron Zentner

Understanding Data Literacy

In today’s data-filled society, institutions are abundant with data but lack data literacy, the ability to transform data into usable information and...

Quick Reference Guides

The following is a collection of evaluation quick reference guides EvaluATE collected in collaboration with the evaluation community. Quick reference guides are practical reference or resource materials such as checklists, worksheets, templates, info-graphics, cheat sheets, or even a table or page in a book

Evaluation Data Matrix Template

An evaluation plan should include a clear description of what data will be collected, from what sources and how, by whom, and when, as well as how the data will be analyzed.

May 23, 2018 | John Cosgrove

Measure What Matters: Time for Higher Education to Revisit This Important Lesson

If one accepts Peter Drucker’s premise that “what gets measured, gets managed,” then two things are apparent: measurement is valuable, but measuring...