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Prek-12 Educational Evaluation

CREATE Week: Marco Muñoz on Evaluation Within a School System

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 27, 2013

I’m Marco Muñoz, Evaluation Specialist at Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY) and Past-President of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE). Today, I am writing about evaluations within a large urban school system. Lessons Learned: In a recent presentation at CREATE, we discussed how heuristic practices help when it comes …

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CREATE Week: Jim Van Haneghan on CREATE as a Resource for Educational Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 26, 2013

My name is Jim Van Haneghan and I am writing about the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE).  CREATE focuses on educational evaluation and is a useful complement to my participation in the American Evaluation Association (AEA).  CREATE was started back in the 1990s by Daniel Stufflebeam and others at the …

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Chad Green on Context -Specific Evaluation of School-wide Initiatives

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 22, 2013

I’m Chad Green, Program Analyst at Loudoun County Public Schools in Ashburn, VA. For over seven years I’ve served as an internal evaluator of instructional initiatives sponsored by central office administrators. Do you have an interest in understanding school-based professional development from a sociocultural learning perspective?  Read on! Years ago I evaluated two school-wide improvement …

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Ed Eval Week: Anne Marshall on Gearing up to Evaluate in the Age of the Common Core

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 10, 2013

My name is Anne Marshall, Director of Research and Evaluation for the Center for Collaborative Education. PreK-12 education and educational evaluation are a-buzz with phrases like “21st century skills,” “college and career ready,” and, of course, “Common Core State Standards (CCSS).” With these new changes, evaluators may be feeling the same initiative fatigue that many …

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Ed Eval Week: Silvana Bialosiewicz on Tips for Collecting Valid and Reliable Data from Children

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 9, 2013

Hi! I’m Silvana Bialosiewicz, an advanced doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Senior Research Associate at the Claremont Evaluation Center. My goal as an applied researcher is to help develop and disseminate “best-practices” for high-quality evaluation of programs that serve children. Today I’d like to share some strategies for collecting valid and reliable …

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Ed Eval Week: Susan Shebby and Sheila Arens on Using Evaluation to Support the Sustainability of District Grant Initiatives

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 11, 2013

Hello. We are Susan Shebby and Sheila Arens, evaluators from Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). In this post, we want to share our experience with a district working to implement a federal grant in two schools. When the grant was awarded, it received a great deal of attention throughout the district and community. …

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Ed Eval Week: Kelly Murphy on Sensitively Measuring Program Impact

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 7, 2013

Hi! I am Kelly Murphy, a Doctoral Candidate in Applied Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University and a new Member-At-Large in the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Over the past five years I have had the pleasure of working on an evaluation of a large multi-site out-of-school time (OST) program that serves over 15,000 K-12 students. …

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Ed Eval Week: Shelly Engelman and Brandi Campbell on The Advantages of Using Retrospective Surveys

4 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 6, 2013

Hi! This is Shelly Engelman and Brandi Campbell with The Findings Group, LLC, a private evaluation firm in Atlanta, GA. Evaluators typically implement pre/post surveys to assess programmatic impact on participants.  However, pre/post surveys are plagued by challenges: 1. Participants have difficulty responding to the “pre” survey items because they have little knowledge of the …

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Ed Eval Week: Tiffany Berry on Resources for Educational Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 5, 2013

Hello! My name is Tiffany Berry and I am a research associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, associate director of the Claremont Evaluation Center, and the chair for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Welcome to our 3rd annual sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. For those who are unfamiliar with our TIG, …

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Video in #Eval Week: Corey Newhouse on Using Video as an Elicitation Technique

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / April 5, 2013

Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, the Founder and Principal of Public Profit, based in Oakland, California. We help public service organizations measure and manage what matters. Lessons Learned – how we’re using video: Public Profit uses video in our evaluation of the Partnerships for Learning (PFL) initiative of the National Equity Project. We use video …

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