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Evaluation: The Secret Sauce in Your ATE Proposal

The Business of Evaluation: Liability Insurance

Bottom line: you may need liability insurance, and you have to pay for it. The proposal has been funded, you are the...

How Evaluators Can Use InformalScience.org

I’m excited to talk to you about the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) and the support they offer evaluators...

Three Common Evaluation Fails and How to Prevent Them

In this webinar, experienced STEM education evaluator Kirk Knestis will share strategies for effectively communicating with evaluation clients to avoid three common...

Building Research-Practice Collaborations for Effective STEM + Computing Education Evaluation Design

At the Kapor Center, our signature three-summer educational program (SMASH Academy) aims to prepare underrepresented high school students of color to pursue...

Evaluation Plan Cheat Sheets: Using Evaluation Plan Summaries to Assist with Project Management

We are Kelly Robertson and Lyssa Wilson Becho, and we work on EvaluATE as well as several other projects at The Evaluation...

Four Personal Insights from 30 Years of Evaluation

As I complete my 30th year in evaluation, I feel blessed to have worked with so many great people. In preparation for...

Successful Practices in ATE Evaluation Planning

In this essay, I identify what helps me create a strong evaluation plan when working with new Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program...

Modifying Grant Evaluation Project Objectives

When performing grant evaluations, our clients develop specific project objectives to drive attainment of overall grant goals. We work with principal investigators...