Hello! We are Mark Yu and Christina Lemon from McREL International. In our daily work as evaluator and practitioner, respectively, we aim to bridge boundaries between research and practice and expand ways communities can more effectively collaborate and promote equitable educational student outcomes. One strategy we employ in our work is knowledge brokering.
Hi! I am Maia Elkana, the evaluation director for the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis, where I direct program evaluation across research-practice partnerships between teachers and administrators, education and scientific researchers from the university, and community partners.
Hi there! My name is Leigh M. Tolley, and I am an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education in the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I am also Program Co-Coordinator, along with Dr. Peter Sheppard, Associate Dean of Research & Strategic Initiatives, and Mrs. Marlene Beard, Interim Director …
I am George Chitiyo, Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation at Tennessee Tech University. I work with teachers and other education professionals in assessing and evaluating instructional strategies, initiatives, and educational interventions and programs.
Hi! We are Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Canadian Evaluation Society Fellow and Credentialed Evaluator, Wendy Rowe from the School of Leadership at Royal Roads University in Canada and Credentialed Evaluator, and Chi Yan Lam, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Credentialed Evaluator. Unimaginable violence against the children, youth and families of …
Hello, everyone! My name is Leigh M. Tolley. I am a Member-at-Large for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG), and have spent the past nine years as part of our TIG’s Program Chair and Chair teams. My interest in educational evaluation began when I was a high school English teacher and we had …
Hi! My name is Carrie Wiley. I’m a Senior Staff Scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) and would like to share some useful tips on manipulating strings in R. As educational evaluators, we often manage complex and messy datasets that we receive from schools, states, teachers, etc. One of the most common data …
Hello, we are Haley Johnson and Natasha Saelua, Researchers at McREL International. This spring we were tasked with evaluating a school-wide, comprehensive, rigorous academic K-12 program. We were asked to include a cost analysis of the program compared to similar programs. A clear-cut quantitative analysis would have sufficed but our team conducted a mixed methods …
Hi everyone! I’m Erin D’Amelio, a consultant at McREL International. Even though I am in no way shape or form a listening expert, I hope that this little blog can serve as a starting point, or maybe a forum for us to share our individual knowledge, thoughts, and experiences related to listening and learn from …
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Aloha kakou. We are Mark Yu, Darienne Dey and Natasha Saelua, researchers with McREL International based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. We are honored to share our lessons learned using the Evaluation with Aloha framework in our work with schools and teachers. We learned about Evaluation with Aloha from the Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment-Hawai‘i (CREA-HI). The …
