Prek-12 Educational Evaluation

Hi I am Paula Egelson, researcher at the Southern Regional Education Board and member of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness’s (CREATE) Board of Directors. CREATE’s membership is international in scope and many CREATE members do research in countries outside the United States (US). Since some of our work centers on …

CREATE Week: Paula Egelson on International Perspectives on School Leadership Preparation, Evaluation Standards, and Role as Principal Read More »

I’m Chad Green, an internal evaluator at Loudoun County Public Schools near Washington, D.C. I’ve worked on many systemic change initiatives over the years, and every so often I get one that defies logic. To make sense of initiatives such as these, I often use a design framework from the book How People Learn by …

Ed Eval TIG Week: Chad Green on Making Sense of Systemic Change Initiatives Read More »

Hi! We are Courtney Howell and Shelly Engelman, evaluators at SageFox Consulting Group in Atlanta, GA. We are social psychologists who happen to be education evaluators. As such, we regularly employ our social psychology backgrounds to inform our work. Persuasion is part of every aspect of life. This reality is no different for evaluation. Persuasion …

Ed Eval TIG Week: Courtney Howell and Shelly Engelman on Social Psychological Tips for Effective Reporting Read More »

Hello! We are Sheila A. Arens and Mariana Enriquez. Evaluators frequently propose psychometrically sound instruments or low-inference observation protocols used by trained observers for data collection. Such instruments and methods are sometimes the most appropriate to address a question of interest. However, we believe it is important for evaluators to stretch beyond traditional data collection …

Ed Eval TIG Week: Sheila A. Arens & Mariana Enriquez on Alternative Data Collection Methods: One Size Does Not Fit All Read More »

Greetings! We are Kelly Murphy, Program Chair of the PreK-12 TIG, and Selma Caal, Research Scientists from Child Trends, a non-profit, nonpartisan research center that works to improve the lives and prospects of children and youth. As developmental psychologists and program evaluators, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to best measure program …

Ed Eval TIG Week: Kelly Murphy and Selma Caal on Evaluating the “whole child” in educational contexts: Defining and assessing social-emotional learning (SEL) skills Read More »

We are Krista Collins and Eugenia Gwynn, experienced evaluation consultants for Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs in Atlanta, GA. Over the past decade, ECE programs have become a major funding priority, with topics such as family engagement, pre-kindergarten, school transitions, and quality rated standards receiving a lot of attention. We have worked closely with programs …

Ed Eval TIG Week: Krista Collins and Eugenia Gwynn on Measuring Family Engagement among an Early Childhood Education Community of Practice Read More »