2016 Fall NEwsletter
2016
Printer Friendly Version Happy New Year! The calendar year may be coming to a close, but a new academic year just started...
2016 Fall NEwsletter
Anatomy of a User-Friendly Evaluation Report
2016
While long-form evaluation reports are the main way information about evaluations is communicated, they are largely underutilized. Barriers to report use most...
3 Inconvenient Truths about ATE Evaluation
2016
Many evaluations fall short of their potential to provide useful, timely, and accurate feedback to projects because project leaders or evaluators (or...
Best Practices for Two-Year Colleges to Create Competitive Evaluation Plans
2016
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College’s (NWTC) Grants Office works closely with its Institutional Research Office to create ad hoc evaluation teams in order...
Possible Selves: A Way to Assess Identity and Career Aspirations
2016
Children are often asked the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Many of us evaluate programs where...
Six Data Cleaning Checks
2016
Data cleaning is the process of verifying and editing data files to address issues of inconsistency and missing information. Errors in data...
Three Tips for a Strong NSF Proposal Evaluation Plan
2016
I’m Leslie Goodyear and I’m an evaluator who also served as a program officer for three years at the National Science Foundation...
National Science Foundation-funded Resources to Support Your Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Project
2016
Did you know that other National Science Foundation programs focused on STEM education have centers that provide services to projects? EvaluATE offers...
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