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DVR TIG Week: Creating Visually Appealing Findings Reports for Federal Clients by Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday

We are excited to share some useful tips for creating visually appealing findings reports for federal clients. Allow us to introduce the team—Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday are based in ICF’s Public Health Solutions portfolio. In late 2022, the team supported the creation of several reports to disseminate key …

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STEM Week: Alyssa Na’im on Using Culturally and Contextually Responsive Practices in STEM Education Evaluation

My name is Alyssa Na’im, Senior Research Associate at the Education Development Center, Inc., and I work on program evaluations of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education programs.  The goal of many STEM education programs is to diversify the STEM workforce by engaging populations who are traditionally underrepresented in these fields – racial/ethnic minorities, …

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YFE TIG Week: Five Hot Tips to Sustain Youth Researcher Engagement in Projects by Brianna, Serrah, and Diamond

Hi! Our names are Brianna, Serrah, and Diamond and we are youth researchers in Minnesota. Alyssa Scott is a researcher at Child Trends supporting us in writing this blog and sharing what we think works for keeping youth engaged in research projects. The project we’re working on is Adapted Measures of Math Engagement (AM-ME), a …

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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

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

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: Beverly Parsons and Veronica Thomas Welcome You to ECLIPS Week

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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Na’im, Blackmon, Ortiz, Nixon, Van Dyk, and Yanowitz on Positionality Matters: Understanding Culture and Context from the Perspective of Key Stakeholders

This post is brought to you by Alyssa Na’im of the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Learning Resource Center at the Education Development Center, and several members of the ITEST Community of Practice: Angelique Tucker Blackmon, Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC; Araceli M. Ortiz, Sustainable Future, Inc.; Carol Nixon, Edvantia, Inc.; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources, LLC; and Karen …

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