Hi! We are Nathan Anderson, Data Management Specialist for Mid-Dakota Education Cooperative, and Amy Engelhard, Data Steward for the state of North Dakota. We strive to help PK-12 educators move from a “data frustration” mindset to a “data utopia” mindset. More specifically, we collaborate with teachers and administrators to optimize the use of student achievement …
Hello friends in evaluation, my name is Rebecca Woodland and I’m an associate professor of educational leadership at UMass Amherst. I’ve been a contributor to AEA in a variety of ways on the topic of evaluating and improving organizational and inter-professional collaboration. I’m especially passionate about using evaluation to cultivate meaningful teacher collaboration in PreK …
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My name is Valerie Williams and I am Senior Program Evaluator at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) located in Boulder, CO. UCAR’s Center for Science Education is currently developing a new climate exhibit for the Mesa Laboratory Visitor Center and I am providing front-end evaluation support to help them test concepts and ideas …
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Kirk Knestis, here, CEO of Hezel Associates—a research and evaluation firm specializing in education innovations. Like many of you, I’ve participated in “evaluation versus research” conversations. That distinction is certainly interesting, but our work in studying science, technology, engineering, and math education (STEM) leaves me more intrigued with what I call the “NSF Conundrum”—confusion among …
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Greetings, I am Laura Pryor. In addition to being a GEDI alumna, I am a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education in the Quantitative Methods and Evaluation program. As part of my graduate evaluation work, I have been exploring the recent trend of using multiple measures to evaluate teachers. As part of this …
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We are Mya Martin-Glenn and Lisa M. Jones, and we work in the Division of Accountability & Research at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. We will be sharing how external evaluators can learn some of the nuances of requesting school data. We also will give you a few hot tips for attending the AEA conference …
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I’m Tamara Young and I am an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University. I teach evaluation theory and practice to school principals, superintendents, and college and university administrators. Today, I am sharing a few hot tips I have surmised about future directions in evaluation based on trends in education. …
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My name is Tara Donahue, and I am a managing evaluator at McREL International. In my role as an evaluator, I spend a lot of time working with K-12 districts and collaborating with their research departments to gain access to district, school, and student data. Even as an “external” partner, I have found that many …
Hi! My name is Krista Collins, and I am an Evaluation Associate at The Evaluation Group in Decatur, GA. I am an educational evaluator, with an expertise in child development, and my work primarily consists of conducting multi-level evaluations of large federally-funded projects awarded to school districts and non-profit organizations. One of the questions that …
I’m Amy Gaumer Erickson, Ph.D., and I’m an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas. My work focuses on the evaluation of effective instructional practices within MTSS (multi-tiered system of supports) educational models. I’ve found that though we expect educators to implement interventions with fidelity, we don’t always evaluate the professional development provided to …
