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ATE PI 2016- A Practical Approach to Outcome Evaluation: Step-by-Step

ATE PI 2016 Workshop- A Practical Approach to Outcome Evaluation: Step-by-Step

3 Inconvenient Truths about ATE Evaluation

Many evaluations fall short of their potential to provide useful, timely, and accurate feedback to projects because project leaders or evaluators (or...

Best Practices for Two-Year Colleges to Create Competitive Evaluation Plans

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College’s (NWTC) Grants Office works closely with its Institutional Research Office to create ad hoc evaluation teams in order...

Three Tips for a Strong NSF Proposal Evaluation Plan

I’m Leslie Goodyear and I’m an evaluator who also served as a program officer for three years at the National Science Foundation...

Student Learning Assessments: Issues of Validity and Reliability

In my last post, I talked about the difference between program evaluation and student assessment. I also touched on using existing assessments...

Using Learning Assessments in Evaluations

If you need to evaluate your project, but get confused about whether there should be a student assessment component, it’s important to...

Meeting Requirements, Exceeding Expectations: Understanding the Role of Evaluation in Federal Grants

External evaluation is a requirement of many federal grant programs. Understanding and addressing these requirements is essential for both successfully seeking grants...

Evaluating for Sustainability: How can Evaluators Help?

Developing a functional strategy to sustain crucial program components is often overlooked by project staff implementing ATE-funded initiatives. At the same time,...