Management, Planning and Design | Blog Post
2016
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...
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None | Blog Post
2016
National Science Foundation-funded Resources to Support Your Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Project
Did you know that other National Science Foundation programs focused on STEM education have centers that provide services to projects? EvaluATE offers...
Data Collection & Analysis | Blog Post
2016
How Real-time Evaluation Can Increase the Utility of Evaluation Findings
Evaluations are most useful when evaluators make relevant findings available to project partners at key decision-making moments. One approach to increasing the...
Data Collection & Analysis, Planning and Design | Blog Post
2016
Articulating Intended Outcomes Using Logic Models: The Roles Evaluators Play
Articulating project outcomes is easier said than done. A well-articulated outcome is one that is feasible to achieve within the project period,...
Data Collection & Analysis, Management | Blog Post
2016
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...
Data Collection & Analysis, Management | Blog Post
2016
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...
Data Collection & Analysis | Blog Post
2016
Designing Cluster Randomized Trials to Evaluate Programs
The push for rigorous evaluations of the impact of interventions has led to an increase in the use of randomized trials (RTs)....
None | Blog Post
2016
Professional Development Opportunities in Evaluation – What’s Out There?
To assist the EvaluATE community in learning more about evaluation, we have compiled a list of free and low-cost online and short-term...
Engagement | Blog Post
2016
Maximizing Stakeholder Engagement by Bringing Evaluation to Life!
Melanie is CEO of SPEC Associates, a nonprofit program evaluation and process improvement organization headquartered in downtown Detroit. Melanie is also on...
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