Scavenging Evaluation Data
2017
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go...
Scavenging Evaluation Data
Evaluating Creativity in the Context of STEAM Education
2016
At The Findings Group, we are assessing a National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 project that gives students an opportunity to learn...
Course Improvement Through Evaluation: Improving Undergraduate STEM Majors’ Capacity for Delivering Inquiry-Based Mathematics and Science Lessons
2016
One of the goals of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) UTeach program is to produce mathematics and science teachers who not only...
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...
How Real-time Evaluation Can Increase the Utility of Evaluation Findings
2016
Evaluations are most useful when evaluators make relevant findings available to project partners at key decision-making moments. One approach to increasing the...
Student Learning Assessments: Issues of Validity and Reliability
2016
In my last post, I talked about the difference between program evaluation and student assessment. I also touched on using existing assessments...
Using Learning Assessments in Evaluations
2016
If you need to evaluate your project, but get confused about whether there should be a student assessment component, it’s important to...
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