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Prek-12 Educational Evaluation

Ed Eval TIG Week: Dana Wanzer and Tiffany Berry on Embedding Continuous Quality Improvement Throughout Organizations

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 25, 2016

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 the importance of embedding quality throughout an organization by discussing our work in promoting continuous quality improvement (CQI) in afterschool programs. CQI systems involve iterative and ongoing cycles of goal …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: Krista Collins on Leadership and Member Opportunities in the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 25, 2016

Hello again!  I’m Krista Collins, chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and Director of Evaluation at Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This week we’re sharing valuable research tips, evaluation results and exciting opportunities for evaluators working in the PreK-12 arena. It’s been an exciting year for our TIG!  We’ve focused on ways to …

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Siobhan Cooney on School and District Approvals for Data Collection with Students

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 9, 2016

Hello! I’m Siobhan Cooney, Principal Consultant of Cooney Collaborative. Over the past eight years, I’ve had the good fortune of working with more than 100 school and district entities to gain approval for data collection activities – such as surveys, assessments and focus groups – involving students whose teachers have followed non-traditional paths to certification …

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Debi Lang on The Importance of Learning Objectives in Program Design and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Program Design / October 16, 2016

Hello from Debi Lang with the Massachusetts Area Health Education Center Network (MassAHEC) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. I last published an aea365 post on how evaluation and program staff collaborated to establish a competency-based model for a range of MassAHEC Health Careers Promotion and Preparation (HCPP) …

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LAWG Week: Valerie Hutcherson and Rebekah Hudgins on Building an Early Childhood Health and Education Strategy Using a Developmental Evaluation Approach

2 Comments / Health Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / July 12, 2016

We are Valerie Hutcherson and Rebekah Hudgins, Research and Evaluation Consultants with the Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP) (gafcp.org). Started with 15 communities in 1991, Family Connection is the only statewide network of its kind in the nation with collaboratives in all 159 counties dedicated to the health and well-being of families and communities. Through …

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Best of AEA365: Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin on ‘Grit’ as a Measure of Academic Success

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / April 12, 2016

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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Sheila B Robinson on Creating a Culture of Evaluation

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 8, 2016

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I recently gave a keynote speech at a statewide conference for educators on how they can create a culture of evaluation in their school districts. As I looked for source material, I found a few Rad Resources I’d like to share with you today. To anchor the …

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CREATE Week: John Fischetti on Reframing Teacher Education for Learning Equity

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 4, 2016

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. In March we launched an international network of educators, neuroscientists, psychologists, equity experts, creative arts specialists, researchers, evaluators, technologists, curriculum leaders, government regulators and many other colleagues from around …

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CREATE Week: Doug Wren on Developing K-12 Performance Assessments

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 4, 2016

Greetings. I’m Doug Wren, Assistant Adjunct Professor at Old Dominion University and Assessment Specialist with Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS). Extensive state-mandated testing of public school students has been roundly criticized in recent years; at the postsecondary level, over 850 four-year institutions across the nation—including Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, and George Washington University—accept applicants …

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CREATE Week: Jim Van Haneghan and Jessica Harlan on Interest in STEM: Lessons Learned

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / April 2, 2016

We are Jim Van Haneghan (Professor at the University of South Alabama) and Jessica Harlan (Senior Program Evaluation Specialist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine). Over the past several years we have been studying a middle school integrated STEM curriculum called Engaging Youth through Engineering (EYE). We have identified one element of impact …

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