Hello! We are Debi Lang and Judy Savageau from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. Earlier this year, Debi published a post on how program-specific learning objectives can help measure student learning to demonstrate program impact. Today’s post shows how to measure whether training or professional development programs are meeting …
Hi! My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I served as the evaluator of a 5-year Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) funded personnel preparation grant. The project trained two cohorts of graduate students, each completing a 2-year Master’s level program. When the grant was funded, our first task was …
Hi! This is Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, and Brandi Villa with SageFox Consulting Group, a privately owned evaluation firm with offices in Amherst, MA and Atlanta, GA, and Shelly Engelman with the School District of Philadelphia. Today we’d like to share results of a recent survey analysis. Lessons Learned: Retrospective vs. Traditional Surveying Evaluators typically implement …
Hi! This is Shelly Engelman and Brandi Campbell with The Findings Group, LLC, a private evaluation firm in Atlanta, GA. Evaluators typically implement pre/post surveys to assess programmatic impact on participants. However, pre/post surveys are plagued by challenges: 1. Participants have difficulty responding to the “pre” survey items because they have little knowledge of the …
