Prek-12 Educational Evaluation

Hi! We are Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Canadian Evaluation Society Fellow and Credentialed Evaluator, Wendy Rowe from the School of Leadership at Royal Roads University in Canada and Credentialed Evaluator, and Chi Yan Lam, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Credentialed Evaluator. Unimaginable violence against the children, youth and families of …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: “Learning as We Go” in Surfacing the Real Stories and Harnessing our Potential as Blue Marble Evaluators by Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Wendy Rowe, and Chi Yan Lam Read More »

Hello, everyone! My name is Leigh M. Tolley. I am a Member-at-Large for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG), and have spent the past nine years as part of our TIG’s Program Chair and Chair teams. My interest in educational evaluation began when I was a high school English teacher and we had …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Remote Learning: Far from Remotely Interesting by Leigh M. Tolley Read More »

Hi! My name is Carrie Wiley. I’m a Senior Staff Scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) and would like to share some useful tips on manipulating strings in R. As educational evaluators, we often manage complex and messy datasets that we receive from schools, states, teachers, etc. One of the most common data …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Common String Manipulation Tasks with Educational Data in R by Carrie Wiley Read More »

Hello, we are Haley Johnson and Natasha Saelua, Researchers at McREL International. This spring we were tasked with evaluating a school-wide, comprehensive, rigorous academic K-12 program. We were asked to include a cost analysis of the program compared to similar programs. A clear-cut quantitative analysis would have sufficed but our team conducted a mixed methods …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Multi-method Evaluation: The Benefits of Qualitative Insight by Haley Johnson and Natasha Saelua Read More »

Hi everyone! I’m Erin D’Amelio, a consultant at McREL International. Even though I am in no way shape or form a listening expert, I hope that this little blog can serve as a starting point, or maybe a forum for us to share our individual knowledge, thoughts, and experiences related to listening and learn from …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Listening Orientations by Erin D’Amelio Read More »

Aloha kakou. We are Mark Yu, Darienne Dey and Natasha Saelua, researchers with McREL International based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. We are honored to share our lessons learned using the Evaluation with Aloha framework in our work with schools and teachers. We learned about Evaluation with Aloha from the Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment-Hawai‘i (CREA-HI). The …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Evaluation with Aloha in Work With Schools and Teachers by Mark Yu, Darienne Dey, and Natasha Saelua Read More »

Hi! I’m Lisa M. Jones, Chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) and Senior Managing Researcher/Evaluator at McREL International. What a great time to kick off Teachers’ Week with an AEA365 blog! Right now, our McREL team is evaluating a program spanning grades K-12. Our client wants to know if the program …

PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Context Matters: At Last, the Recognition Context Deserves by Lisa M. Jones Read More »

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 …

CREATE Week: Tips for Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Educational Evaluation by Jim Van Haneghan Read More »