Research on Evaluation

Hello! We are Megan and Lyssa from EvaluATE, the evaluation hub for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. NSF’s ATE program aims to promote the development of innovative programs for the education of technicians in the high-technology fields. EvaluATE enhances evaluation capacity in the ATE community, including among project staff, evaluators, …

RoE TIG Week with EvaluATE: Funding Your Research on Evaluation Initiatives by Megan Zelinsky and Lyssa Wilson Becho Read More »

Greetings! I am Esther Nolton and I recently completed my PhD in Research and Evaluation Methods at George Mason University. As a GEDI Scholar, I had an opportunity to witness large-scale changes in the culture of valuing and capacity for using evaluation in the U.S. Federal government when the Evidence Act (P.L. 115-435) was enacted. …

RoE TIG Week: Institutionalizing Evaluation in the U.S. Federal Government by, Esther C. Nolton, PhD Read More »

Hi there! I’m Maggie Schultz Patel, an independent evaluation consultant and doctoral student of Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Denver. Program evaluation is still a relatively new discipline, and there is still a need to increase our knowledge of ourselves as a field. Further, according to a recent needs assessment, there are key research …

RoE TIG Week: Knowing Ourselves: Driving the Field Forward Through Self-Discovery by Maggie Schultz Patel Read More »

Hello!  My name is John LaVelle.  I am on the Evaluation Studies faculty at University of Minnesota, and one of the things I get to do is help my students conceptualize and implement original research on the field of evaluation (RoE).  We organize our projects by Mel Mark’s research on evaluation taxonomy: contexts, activities, outcomes, …

RoE TIG Week: Integrating Me-search and Re-search by John LaVelle Read More »

We are Dr. Kelly Skinner, an independent evaluation consultant, Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo (UW), and program lead for the Master of Health Evaluation; and Dr. Sneha Shankar, a post-doctoral research fellow and measurement and methodology specialist at McGill University. Together, we have been …

Examining the Validity of Evaluation Methods in Practice by Drs. Kelly Skinner and Sneha Shankar Read More »