Designing a rigorous and informative evaluation depends on communication with program staff to understand planned activities and how those activities relate to...
This 2017 guide includes advice on how to locate and select an external evaluator.
This template is for use in preparing the evaluation plan sections for proposals to the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program.
This 2017 template provides evaluators with an overview and visual guide of the different elements needed for an NSF evaluator biographical sketch.
This template can help users to ensure that they have developed a viable plan for collecting all the data necessary to answer each evaluation question and that all data collected will serve a specific, intended purpose.
This checklist is designed to help with the creation of a project vita. Similar to an individual’s professional vita or resume, a project vita is a comprehensive index of factual information about a project’s activities and achievements.
This 2017 video provides an overview of What is project evaluation?; Why does NSF require evaluation?; How do you plan for evaluation?; and How can EvaluATE help?
We as evaluators, all know that managing an evaluation is quite different from managing a scientific research project. Sure, we need to...
In this blog, I share my experience leading a multi-year external evaluation that provided useful insights about how to best strengthen the...
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