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LAWG Week: A Totality Awe-some Eclipse: OSU’s STEM Research Center Conducts Evaluation during the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse by Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 4, 2024

We are Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center (SRC), a team of dedicated professionals of various disciplinary backgrounds who conduct applied research and evaluation on STEM learning and education, science communication, and STEM engagement (figure 1).  Working at the intersection of research, practice, and policy, we focus on equity and social justice and strive to …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Tarek Azzam and Matt Keene Recap Systems-Oriented Evaluation

3 Comments / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 22, 2013

Hello! We are Tarek Azzam (Claremont Graduate University) and Matt Keene (Environmental Protection Agency). We are members of the External Review Panel for ECLIPS. Whoa! Even though it’s oh-so-tempting to try, you don’t need the perfect string of words to define “systems-oriented evaluation.” Lesson Learned: It’s in the roots of evaluation  At its core a …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Karen Peterman and Marah Moore on How a Systems Orientation Influences an Evaluator’s Role

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 21, 2013

Hello! We are Karen Peterman (Karen Peterman Consulting, Co.) and Marah Moore (Director of i2i institute and ECLIPS coPI). We are going to talk about some of the implications of a systems approach for the role of the evaluator. In a recent Thought Leaders Forum, Michael Patton reminded us that evaluation is a transdisciplinary field. …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Reider, Fitzhugh, and Na’im on Using the Systems Concepts of Boundaries, Relationships, and Perspectives to Identify Leverage Points

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 20, 2013

Hello, we are David Reider (Education Design, Inc.), Ginger Fitzhugh (Evaluation and Research Associates), and Alyssa Na’im (Education Development Center, Inc.). As ECLIPS members, we are incorporating systems concepts into STEM education evaluations related to the National Science Foundation program, Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST). Keying off the iceberg diagram (see Monday’s …

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ECLIPS & Systems TIG Week: Lloyd Bingman and Pat Jessup on Seeing and Understanding Patterns in Systems

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 19, 2013

Hello! We are Lloyd Bingman (Brighter Day Consulting, LLC and evaluator of an NSF STEM project) and Pat Jessup (InSites associate and coPI for ECLIPS). We’re here to talk about the “Patterns” portion of theiceberg diagram displayed on Monday of ECLIPS week. Both of us evaluate programs that are part of complex social systems that …

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ECLIPS & Systems TIG Week: David Hata on Looking to Interconnections for Value Creation

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 18, 2013

Hello! I’m David Hata, an independent consultant who serves as an external evaluator for a number of NSF-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers. I’m here to share my experience helping a STEM project see itself as part of a system that creates value. For some clients, success is doing a lot of activities. …

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ECLIPS & Systems TIG Week: Beverly Parsons and Veronica Thomas Welcome You to ECLIPS Week

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 17, 2013

Greetings! We are Beverly Parsons (InSites and ECLIPS principal investigator) and Veronica Thomas (Howard University and ECLIPS external advisor). Today we introduce you to an exploratory research project, Evaluation Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice about Systems (ECLIPS). It’s funded through a National Science Foundation grant to InSites. The ECLIPS Community of Practice is 15 …

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LAWG Week: Welcome (Back) to Oregon Evaluators’ Week! by Corey Newhouse

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 4, 2024

Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit. I had the honor of curating two weeks’ worth of AEA365 blogs from Oregon-based evaluators as part of the lead up to this year’s AEA conference. This week’s posts feature a variety of case studies of Oregon evaluators in action. Our authors share stories …

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LAWG Week: Welcome to Oregon Evaluators’ Week! by Corey Newhouse

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 9, 2024

Hi there, I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit. I have the honor of curating two weeks’ worth of AEA365 blogs from Oregon-based evaluators as part of the lead up to this year’s AEA conference. This week’s posts will focus on different evaluation methods our colleagues use, including systems-oriented evaluation, Ripple Effect Mapping, …

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Happy New Year! 20 reasons to be excited about 2020 by Sheila B Robinson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 28, 2019

Happy New Year! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. To some it’s just another date on the calendar; others see January 1, 2020 as a starting (or ending) point for something important, hailing it as the perfect time for new beginnings. 1.) Wikipedia’s interesting facts about 2020 lists of worldwide …

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