Evaluating for Sustainability: How can Evaluators Help?
2016
Developing a functional strategy to sustain crucial program components is often overlooked by project staff implementing ATE-funded initiatives. At the same time,...
Evaluating for Sustainability: How can Evaluators Help?
Small Project Evaluation: Principles and Practices
2016
An effective small project evaluation requires a clear-cut and feasible project plan, an evaluation plan that matches the project’s scope and purpose,...
Good Communication Is Everything!
2016
I am new to the field of evaluation, and the most important thing that I learned in my first nine months is...
Show Me a Story: Using Data Visualization to Communicate Evaluation Findings
2016
It’s all too easy for our evaluation reports to become a lifeless pile of numbers that gather dust on a shelf. As...
Strategic Knowledge Mapping: A New Tool for Visualizing and Using Evaluation Findings in STEM
2016
A challenge to designing effective STEM programs is that they address very large, complex goals, such as increasing the numbers of underrepresented...
Improving Evaluator Communication and PI Evaluation Understanding to Increase Evaluation Use: The Evaluator’s Perspective
2015
As a project PI, have you ever glanced at an evaluation report and wished it has been presented in a different format...
Improving Evaluator Communication and PI Evaluation Understanding to Increase Evaluation Use: The Principal Investigator’s Perspective
2015
As an evaluator, have you ever spent hours working on an evaluation report only to find that your client skimmed it or...
Getting Ready to Reapply – Highlighting Results of Prior Support
2015
Hello. My name is Amy A. Germuth and I own EvalWorks, LLC, an education evaluation firm in Durham, NC, which has a...
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