Management, Quality Review | Blog Post
2021
Building Trust in Evaluations
Trust is integral to valuing evaluation results and findings. If stakeholders don’t trust your evaluation work, they will neither value it nor...
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Planning and Design | Blog Post
2021
Three Mistakes to Avoid for Your Next Grant Proposal
During my twenty-plus-year professional career, I have participated in many grant applications. I have experienced the grant-seeking process from three perspectives: applying...
Management | Blog Post
2021
Project Management for Evaluation*
At Three Hive, we work on multiple evaluation projects, some with firm deadlines, some without; we share staff between evaluations based on...
Data Collection & Analysis | Blog Post
2021
Adapting Monitoring Surveys to Respond to and Engage a Community*
Hi! We are Val Marshall, Megan Zelinsky, and Lyssa Wilson Becho from EvaluATE, the evaluation hub for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. For over...
Data Collection & Analysis, Planning and Design | Blog Post
2021
Checking our bias in “unbiased” research instruments: applying a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to instrument design*
We think of a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens as the commitment to incorporate DEI principles and practices into the environments...
Communication, Dissemination, & Use of Results, Management | Blog Post
2021
How is an NSF project outcomes report different from a final annual report?
All NSF projects are required to submit a project outcomes report within 90 days of the grant’s expiration, along with a final...
Communication, Dissemination, & Use of Results, Management, Planning and Design | Blog Post
2021
Evaluation That Seriously Gets to the Point and Conveys It Brilliantly
Evaluation, much as we love it, has a reputation among non-evaluators for being overly technical and academic, lost in the details, hard...
Data Collection & Analysis | Blog Post
2021
Protecting Participants with Confidential and Anonymous Data
As an evaluator specializing in informal STEM education, I’ve had to collect sensitive participant data, and I know that when collecting data...
Planning and Design | Blog Post
2021
What if We Measured Racism Instead of Race?
Six months ago I attended a webinar in which Ruha Benjamin asked, “What if we measured racism instead of race?” This challenge...
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