Often professional development projects skip assessments because participants don’t want to take tests. However, assessment done well is integral to participant learning...
Do you have questions about evaluation? Like, what is it? Why is it required for projects funded by the National Science Foundation? How much does it cost? Who can do it? What does an evaluation look like? How can evaluation help me and my project?
As a new ATE PI, I never made the connection between the ATE Survey, the project evaluations, and my annual report. They...
There are no stupid questions, but some questions are better than others when it comes to framing evaluations. The best evaluation questions...
Values play an important role in evaluation. By values, I mean not just the value or merit of a project, but also...
Race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, class, language, mental health – these characteristics and others make for complex...
Trust is integral to valuing evaluation results and findings. If stakeholders don’t trust your evaluation work, they will neither value it nor...
Using qualitative data in an evaluation can lead to a deeper understanding of why and how a project works. Quotations and stories...
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