Hello! My name is Ann Price, the owner of Community Evaluation Solutions, Inc., an evaluation firm that focuses on program development and capacity-building evaluation. I always tell people that evaluation is what I DO, but a community psychologist is what I AM. In this 365 I would like to discuss community psychology’s values and how I …
Hi, my name is Brian Hoessler and I’m a consultant who works with community-based organizations to build their capacity to make change. Previously, I worked in the non-profit sector in Ontario, most recently as a researcher at Kingston Community Health Centres for two projects including a support program for high school students called Pathways to …
Hi, I am Katherine Drake, Evaluation Specialist for the Saint Paul Public Schools, an urban district serving a diverse community of 38,000 students. In my role as an evaluator, I regularly encounter requests for tests scores and other data on our students. Hot Tips: Identify a contact person in the district office rather than approach …
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Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …
I’m Donna Campbell, Director of Professional Development Capacity Building at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). The Professional Development Leadership Academy (PDLA) is a three-year long curriculum of training and back-home application for school and district teams based on the Learning Forward Professional Learning Standards, derived from research. Lesson Learned: Legislation supports evaluation. I’ve learned …
Hello, I am Barb Goldsby, Interim Director of the Exceptional Student Services Unit and Supervisor of the Secondary Transition Services Team from the Colorado Department of Education. We truly value meaningful evaluations of our training, technical assistance and professional development. With the help of the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), we have taken …
Hello, I am Rashell Bowerman, Educational Consultant for the Michigan Department of Education. I formally worked as a doctoral associate for the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) and continue to participate in NSTTAC’s Evaluating Professional Development Community of Practice. NSTTAC is committed to data-based decision making and views evaluation as a tool for …
My name is Xiaomei Song, a PhD Candidate in Assessment and Evaluation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. In the past four years, I have been working on my doctoral degree and a part of my dissertation is to evaluate a large-scale high-stakes testing system from the stakeholder perspective. I have learned a number of lessons along …
My name is Gary Resnick and I am the Director of Research at Harder+Company Community Research, a California-based consulting firm. My background combines program evaluation with child development research, and I have an interest in system theory and networks. Harder+Company has been involved evaluating First 5 programs in a number of California counties. First 5 …
Hello all! This is Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin, evaluators at The Findings Groups, LLC, a privately-owned applied research and evaluation firm with a focus on STEM education. The primary objective of many programs that we evaluate is to empower a broad range of elementary, middle and high school students to learn STEM content and …
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