Prek-12 Educational Evaluation

AaEA Week: Utilizing Culturally Responsive Evaluation for Education by Olivia Halls, Shanice Bennerson, and Shanesha Brooks-Tatum

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / December 28, 2019

Hello! We are Olivia Halls, Shanice Bennerson, and Shanesha Brooks-Tatum representing Creative Research Solutions, an evaluation firm in metro Atlanta, and the Atlanta-Area Evaluation Association. Reflecting upon our projects related to secondary and post-secondary education, a common thread is apparent: approaching evaluations holistically plays a critical role in supporting academic success for marginalized groups.  Various …

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Teachers Are Important Participants in Student-centered Interventions, Not Just Inputs by Bryan Hall and Danielle Fontaine

5 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 15, 2019

Hello AEA365! We are Bryan Hall, senior director of evaluation, and Danielle Fontaine, senior manager of evaluation at BellXcel (formerly BELL, Building Educated Leaders for Life). BellXcel offers solutions for under-resourced communities to create evidence-based summer and afterschool learning programs that address the opportunity and achievement gaps. Historically, the focus of our internal program evaluation approach …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: The Program Evaluation Standards – Not Just for the Bookshelf… by Thanos Patelis and Emily Dickinson

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 28, 2019

Greetings from Thanos Patelis and Emily Dickinson! We are researchers at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), a non-profit research organization. We are happy to talk about a favorite Rad Resource of ours—The Program Evaluation Standards. Every time we undertake a new project, we are reminded of the multiple demands that come with an evaluation. …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: Self-care for Leaders by Tiffany Squires

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 28, 2019

Hello! I’m Tiffany Squires, and I am a member of the faculty in Educational Leadership for Penn State University. I study high quality leadership practice and apply it to developing aspiring school leaders for practice. It’s widely accepted and understood, by those of us working as professional in schools, that the principal’s role is as …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: The Parallels Between Evaluation Methods and Blank’s Lean Startup Methods by Cathy Callow-Heusser

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 27, 2019

Hello! I’m Cathy Callow-Heusser. Although I started my career as a software engineer, I’ve been an evaluator for nearly 30 years, working in academia, industry, and as an independent evaluator. I am also a math educator and early literacy specialist. Two years ago, I co-founded a company to develop software solutions for education. In January, …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: Take this model and replicate it! by Leigh M. Tolley, Melanie Harrington, and Brady McKellar

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 30, 2019

Hello! We’re Leigh M. Tolley, Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette), Melanie Harrington, Education Coordinator at Vermilionville, and Brady McKellar, Director of Museum Operations at Vermilionville, and we’re very excited to share the Vermilionville Education Enrichment Partnership (VEEP) with you! VEEP, founded in 2012 on research and best practices, is …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: A Community Approach for Informing and Advancing Educational Evaluation by Carrie Wiley

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 27, 2019

Hi there! I’m Carrie Wiley, current chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and senior researcher at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we are sharing tips and insights learned from the various research and evaluation settings in PreK-12 education. Our TIG’s mission is to raise the quality of …

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DVR TIG Week: Meet Them Where They Are: Adjusting Data Visualization to Resonate with K–12 Evaluation Stakeholders by Rachel L. Schechter

12 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 10, 2018

My name is  Rachel Schechter, Director of Research at Lexia Learning Systems LLC, A Rosetta Stone company. At Lexia, our mission is to improve student literacy by leveraging technology to personalize learning and simplify the use of data to drive instruction. The research team at Lexia is committed to evaluating the efficacy and validity of …

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LAWG Week: Cleveland Rocks! by Matt Linick

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 18, 2018

My name is Matt Linick, and I am the Executive Director of Research and Evaluation at the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). We are excited that the American Evaluation Association is coming to Cleveland this year! As many embedded researchers and evaluators in school districts know, we are often under-resourced and over-committed, so partnering with …

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