Demonstration: Using Multiple Sources and Levels of Data
Using data from the ATE Survey, this video demonstrates the use of project-, program-, and national-level data for benchmarking and evaluation.
Using data from the ATE Survey, this video demonstrates the use of project-, program-, and national-level data for benchmarking and evaluation.
Evaluation questions identify what aspects of a program will be investigated. They focus on the merit, worth, or significance of a program or particular aspects of a program. Unlike survey questions, they are not intended to derive single data points. Evaluation questions help to define the boundaries of an evaluation that are consistent with evaluation users’ information needs, opportunities, and constraints related to data collection, and available resources.
Are you required to have an evaluation of your grant? Never worked with an evaluator before? Not sure what evaluation even is? This video is for you!
These slides are from a presentation by Erika Sturgis and Megan Zelinsky for the 2022 Michigan Association for Evaluation Conference.
The resources and tools below, developed by the FAS4ATE project, are intended for anyone who is involved in conducting and evaluating professional development activities, including PIs, co-PIs, and evaluators.
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This collection includes over 50 evaluation quick reference guides that address evaluation planning, to data collection, to reporting. Quick reference guides are practical reference or resource materials such as checklists, worksheets, templates, info-graphics, cheat sheets, or even a table or page in a book
This document identifies and defines the essential tasks involved in planning and conducting an evaluation of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) project. ... The tasks convey what needs to be done in evaluation and, in most cases, why. They do not include details about how the work should be done.