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DOVP Week: Nivedita Ranade and Tom McKlin on The Importance of Nurturing in Mentoring Students with Disabilities (SwD)

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 21, 2013 August 21, 2013

Hi! This is Nivedita Ranade and Tom McKlin with The Findings Group. We are evaluating two federal-level grants that provide mentoring to students with disabilities. These mentoring relationships are critical to program success because the students see the mentor as their primary source of support. The program administrators qualified these relationships as “nurturing” because the …

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DOVP Week: Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski on Data Sources for Tracking Outcomes of People with and without Disabilities

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 20, 2013 August 20, 2013

My name is Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), University of Massachusetts Boston and past co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG. At ICI, we do a lot of work involving analysis of publicly available datasets to determine outcomes and trends for …

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DOVP Week: Pat Campbell on Diversity, Evaluation, and Better Data

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / August 19, 2013 August 19, 2013

I’m Pat Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. Under NSF funding, Eric Jolly, president of the Science Museum of Minnesota and I, with the help of a lot of friends, have been generating research-based tips, such as those below, to improve the accuracy of data collection, the quality of the analysis and the appropriateness of …

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DOVP Week: Linda Thurston on Evaluating Teacher Performance Must Include Students from Vulnerable Populations

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / August 18, 2013 August 18, 2013

Hello from Kansas, the nation’s breadbasket! I am Linda Thurston, Associate Dean of the College of Education at Kansas State University and long-time member of AEA. I am the 2013 co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG. DOVP welcomes you to a week of aea365 articles focused on information and resources to help …

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June Gothberg on How Potent Presentations Changed my Presentation Worldview

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 14, 2013 July 14, 2013

Greetings this is June Gothberg, Senior Researcher at Western Michigan University. A few years ago, I became involved with AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative and worked with Stephanie Evergreen to include universal design principles. I currently hold a position on the p2i advisory board. What I didn’t anticipate when I started working with the group is …

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Kathy Muhr, Aniko Laszlo and Alexis Henry on Using Concept Mapping to Evaluate Employment Collaboratives for People with Disabilities.

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation / June 10, 2013 June 10, 2013

Hi. We are Kathy Muhr, Aniko Laszlo and Alexis Henry from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Through Work Without Limits, a Massachusetts network of employers and providers that aims to increase employment for people with disabilities, we evaluate and promote programs, policies, and practices related to recruitment, retention, accommodation, and career …

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Karen Vocke on Migrant Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / December 16, 2012 December 4, 2012

My name is Karen Vocke, an English Education professor at Western Michigan University. My work has long focused on migrant farm worker education at multiple levels—families, educators, and programming. Migrant workers are often referred to as the “invisible people” because of their status as one of America’s most marginalized, vulnerable, and undereducated populations. These families’ …

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DOVP Week: Don Glass on Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Evaluation

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 31, 2012 August 30, 2012

Hi! I am Don Glass an independent education and evaluation consultant, and a former UDL Fellow at Boston College and CAST. Over the past several years I have been interested in how we can be as inclusive as possible in the gathering and analysis of data, as well as in the sharing and use of …

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DOVP Week: Bob Hughes on Evaluating Universal Design for Learning

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 30, 2012 July 27, 2012

My name is Bob Hughes, and I’m an Associate Professor of adult education at Seattle University. I’ve been researching and evaluating Universal Design for Learning since 1995. I find UDL to form a critical framework with which to frame my other research interests in preparation of instructors, professional development, providing equitable learning for diverse populations, …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Creating Evaluation Designs that are Flexible and Perceptible for All

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 29, 2012 August 30, 2012

Greeting, I am June Gothberg, Senior Researcher at Western Michigan University. You may also recognize me as the intern Lead Curator for aea365. My AEA internship is ending this month and I will be passing the torch to another. Look for forthcoming details from Susan Kistler. My colleague, Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I co-chair the …

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