Prek-12 Educational Evaluation – Page 18

Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer on NWEA’s Data Gallery and Standardized Educational Testing

My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …

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Lisa Chauveron on the Roadmap to Effectiveness

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 19, 2011 July 19, 2011

My name is Lisa Chauveron. I am the Director of Research & Evaluation at The Leadership Program, an urban organization that serves 18,000 youth, 500 teachers, and 6,000 parents annually in 250 underserved New York City schools. I oversee all internal program evaluations, coordinate with outside consultants, and lead external evaluations for other organizations. We …

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Leslie K. Grier on Evaluation Practices in Out-of-School Programs

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / June 30, 2011 September 1, 2011

My name is Leslie K. Grier and I am an Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Studies at California State University, Fullerton. I am interested in quality programming and evaluation practices in out-of-school time programs. My interests also include moral and character development and their relationship to academic achievement. Although the terms moral and character …

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Chris Michael Kirk on Negotiating the Value of Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / June 24, 2011 September 2, 2011

My name is Chris Michael Kirk, and I am a Doctoral Candidate in the Community Psychology Program at Wichita State University. During my time here, I’ve had the opportunity work with Dr. Rhonda K. Lewis on the evaluation of a federally-funded youth-serving program at the University. In programs like this, the demands of program implementation …

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EdEval Week: Manolya Tanyu on a Basic Understanding of Multilevel Modeling

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / May 5, 2011 May 6, 2011

My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Our world is a nested one where individuals are influenced …

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EdEval Week: Chad Green on Nested Outcome Models

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 4, 2011 May 2, 2011

Chad Green here on the utility of Costa and Garmston’s maturing outcomes map from yesterday’s post. If you revisit this colorful framework, you will notice that the nested concepts form a learning continuum, ranging from concrete to abstract, similar to the outcomes in a logic model. However, if you dabble in cognitive neuroscience like myself, …

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EdEval Week: Sheila Kohn and Chad Green on Cognitive Coaching

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 3, 2011 September 2, 2011

Hello! We are Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY, and Chad Green, from Loudoun County Public Schools in northern VA. We’re program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and we welcome you to our sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. We’d like to …

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EdEval Week: Manolya Tanyu on Monitoring for Continuous Program Improvement

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011

My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Lessons Learned: In evaluating afterschool programs, primarily 21st Century Community …

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EdEval Week: Tiffany Berry on Using Developmental Psychology to Promote the Whole Child in Educational Evaluations

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 1, 2011 April 30, 2011

Hi! I’m Tiffany Berry, a Research Associate Professor in developmental psychology and practicing program evaluator at Claremont Graduate University’s Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research (IOPER). I evaluate a variety of educational institutions, including schools, after school programs, districts, county offices of education, and textbook publishers, among others. Throughout my evaluations, I have consistently …

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