My name is David Brewer, Senior Extension Associate for the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University. Professional development isn’t always about listening to a presenter, watching a slide presentation, and asking a few questions. True learning with measurable student impact in mind involves relationship building Lesson Learned: Creating our own Evidence. You don’t have …
Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …
I’m Donna Campbell, Director of Professional Development Capacity Building at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). The Professional Development Leadership Academy (PDLA) is a three-year long curriculum of training and back-home application for school and district teams based on the Learning Forward Professional Learning Standards, derived from research. Lesson Learned: Legislation supports evaluation. I’ve learned …
Hello, I am Barb Goldsby, Interim Director of the Exceptional Student Services Unit and Supervisor of the Secondary Transition Services Team from the Colorado Department of Education. We truly value meaningful evaluations of our training, technical assistance and professional development. With the help of the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), we have taken …
Hello, I am Rashell Bowerman, Educational Consultant for the Michigan Department of Education. I formally worked as a doctoral associate for the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) and continue to participate in NSTTAC’s Evaluating Professional Development Community of Practice. NSTTAC is committed to data-based decision making and views evaluation as a tool for …
Happy New Year, readers! Liz DiLuzio here, lead curator of AEA365. We are excited to kick off 2022 with a “best of” week sponsored by the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching (CREATE). Every blog this week is a revival of posts with evergreen content that was so thought provoking the first time …
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My name is Kelly Robertson, and I work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and EvaluATE, the National Science Foundation–funded evaluation hub for Advanced Technological Education. I’m a huge fan of quick reference guides. Quick reference guides are brief summaries of important content that can be used to improve practice in real time. …
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Hi, I’m Tom McKlin, Executive Director of The Findings Group. We have been transitioning our data analyses and visualizations to R for the past couple of years. The question I faced (and still face) when making this transition was, how can we best apply R to either improve our efficiency, accuracy, or communication of complex …
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Hi, I’m Tom McKlin, Executive Director of The Findings Group. We have been transitioning our data analyses and visualizations to R for the past couple of years. The question I faced (and still face) when making this transition was, how can we best apply R to either improve our efficiency, accuracy, or communication of complex …
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This is John Fischetti, Dean of Education/Head of School, at the University of Newcastle in Australia. We are one of Australia’s largest providers of new teachers and postgraduate degrees for current educators. We are committed to equity and social justice as pillars of practice, particularly in evaluation and assessment. Lessons Learned: It is with that equity …
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