Hi, I am Paula Egelson and I am the director of research at the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta and a CREATE board member. Much of my current research and evaluation work centers on secondary career technical education (CTE) program effectiveness for teachers and students. The fidelity of implementation, or the degree to which …
Hello. I am Sean Owen, Associate Research Professor and Assessment Manager at the Research and Curriculum Unit (RCU) at Mississippi State University. Founded in 1965, the RCU contributes to Mississippi State University’s mission as a land-grant institution to better the lives of Mississippians with a focus on improving education. The RCU benefits K-12 and higher …
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This is John Fischetti, Dean of Education/Head of School, at the University of Newcastle in Australia. We are one of Australia’s largest providers of new teachers and postgraduate degrees for current educators. We are committed to equity and social justice as pillars of practice, particularly in evaluation and assessment. Hot Tips: We are in a climate …
Greetings, colleagues! This is Jacqueline Craven with a quick glimpse of but one way to work with educational professionals concerned with establishing validity & reliability for their own assessments. I coordinate a doctoral program in Teacher Education, Leadership, and Research and as such, am a member of the standard 5 committee for the Council for …
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Hello from Hampton Roads, Virginia. I’m Doug Wren, Educational Measurement & Assessment Specialist with Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) and Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations & Leadership at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. While Socrates is known as the father of critical thinking (CT), the ability to think critically …
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My name is Jim Van Haneghan. I am a Professor in the Department of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama and Past President of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE). CREATE is an organization focused on both educational assessment and educational program evaluation in the service of effective …
We are Laura Fogarty, Policy Research Fellow at Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and doctoral student in Urban Education at Cleveland State University (CSU); Dr. Matthew Linick, Executive Director of Research and Evaluation at CMSD; and, Dr. Adam Voight, Director of the Center for Urban Education at CSU. The Research and Evaluation Department at CMSD …
Hello! We are Dana Linnell Wanzer, evaluation doctoral student, and Tiffany Berry, research associate professor, from Claremont Graduate University. Today we are going to discuss why you should measure participants’ motivation for joining or continuing to attend a program. Sometimes, randomization in our impact evaluations is not possible. When this happens, there are issues of …
Allow me to introduce myself as Anane Olatunji, president of Align Education, LLC, a consulting R & D firm. Having worked with all types of educational agencies over the last two decades, I’d like to share one important tip that I’ve found particularly helpful when evaluating educational program evaluations. Assess student engagement! Although there is …
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Hi! My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I served as the evaluator of a 5-year Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) funded personnel preparation grant. The project trained two cohorts of graduate students, each completing a 2-year Master’s level program. When the grant was funded, our first task was …
