None | Blog Post
2017
What Goes Where? Reporting Evaluation Results to NSF
In this blog, I provide advice for Advanced Technological Education (ATE) principal investigators (PIs) on how to include information from their project...
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Management | Blog Post
2017
Evaluation Management Skill Set
We as evaluators, all know that managing an evaluation is quite different from managing a scientific research project. Sure, we need to...
Management, Planning and Design | Blog Post
2017
Gauging Workplace Readiness Among Cyberforensics Program Graduates
In this blog, I share my experience leading a multi-year external evaluation that provided useful insights about how to best strengthen the...
Planning and Design | Blog Post
2017
Designing a Purposeful Mixed Methods Evaluation
A mixed methods evaluation involves collecting, analyzing, and integrating data from both quantitative and qualitative sources. Sometimes, I find that while I...
Engagement, Management | Blog Post
2017
Sustaining Career Pathways System Development Efforts
Career pathways are complex systems that leverage education, workforce development, and social service supports to help people obtain the skills they need...
Management, Planning and Design | Blog Post
2017
Declutter Your Reports: The Checklist for Straightforward Evaluation Reports
Evaluation reports have a reputation for being long, overly complicated, and impractical. The recent buzz about fresh starts and tidying up for...
Data Collection & Analysis, Management | Blog Post
2017
Scavenging Evaluation Data
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go...
None | Blog Post
2017
Research Goes to School (RGS) Model
Data regarding pathways to STEM careers indicate that a critical transition point exists between high school and college. Many students who are...
Data Collection & Analysis | Blog Post
2016
Evaluating Creativity in the Context of STEAM Education
At The Findings Group, we are assessing a National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 project that gives students an opportunity to learn...
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