Download: NSF Investment in Advancing Evaluation Poster
This 2014 poster provides an overview of research conducted into NSF’s investment in advancing Evaluation. The research and poster were created and presented at the 2014 American Evaluation Association Conference.
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Emma Binder 
Marketing and Communication Specialist Senior, The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University
Emma Binder is a Marketing and Communication Specialist Senior at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and is the co-principal investigator for EvaluATE, the evaluation hub for the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. She is the co-creator of creating one-page reports and specializes in data communication and visualization. She has over nine years of evaluation experience, presenting in webinars and workshops for national and international audiences, developing resources, newsletters, and reports.
Miranda Lee
Doctoral Candidate, The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University
Miranda Lee is a project manager at the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan Unviersity. She is also a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program. Her primary responsibilities with EvaluATE involve the maintenance of our contact list and our database of evaluation data, conduct of the annual survey, webmaster, and contributor to various EvaluATE products.
Corey Smith
Doctoral Associate, The Evaluation Center
Corey Smith is a doctoral associate with EvaluATE. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in evaluation at Western Michigan University. His primary responsibilities with EvaluATE are to administer and manage the annual ATE survey, analyze data collected through that survey and produce reports, data snapshots and publications based on that data. PI’s may recognize his name from the flurry of nagging emails he sends about the annual survey each January through March.
Lori Wingate
Executive Director, The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University
Lori has a Ph.D. in evaluation and more than 20 years of experience in the field of program evaluation. She is co-principal investigator of EvaluATE and leads a variety of evaluation projects at WMU focused on STEM education, health, and higher education initiatives. Dr. Wingate has led numerous webinars and workshops on evaluation in a variety of contexts, including CDC University and the American Evaluation Association Summer Evaluation Institute. She is an associate member of the graduate faculty at WMU.
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