Hello! My name is Callie Dean, and I am a program evaluator with The Evaluation Group, where I work on several projects related to STEM and computer science education. Because of the overwhelming need to expand and diversify the STEM workforce, many organizations have developed initiatives for K-12 students with the goal of increasing awareness …
Hello! My name is Kathy Dowell and I am an evaluator at The Evaluation Group. In my 25+ years as a program evaluator I have worked with many STEM-focused programs to assess student outcomes. Recently, I have worked with STEM projects that target young students (Grade K-8), and one challenge I have consistently run into …
Hello! I am Melissa Page, an evaluator with The Evaluation Group, and the incoming STEM TIG Social Chair. I am excited to bring to the forefront again our STEM TIG Repository as well as several other websites that offer surveys that may meet your STEM needs. No one should reinvent the wheel when searching for …
Hello! We are Cori Hyde, Research and Evaluation Scientist with the Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE) at Iowa State University and Tiffany Morgan, Instructional Media Coordinator for Iowa PBS’s Iowa Science Phenomena. Iowa Science Phenomena is a website and service dedicated to the creation, curation, collection and sharing of Iowa focused user-generated, media-based …
Greetings from Tom Withee, Goshen Education Consulting, and Marcia Nation, Nation Evaluation Consulting. We came into evaluation from other career paths and now are evaluating formal and informal STEM education programs from our respective bases in Edwardsville, Illinois and Tempe, Arizona. COVID-19 upturned K-12 education in many ways, and these impacts will resonate into the …
We are Tracy McMahon (Education Development Center) and Gary Silverstein (Westat) on behalf of the NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) Coordination Hub. The Hub supports NSF INCLUDES and its National Network, which brings together the power of many in a shared vision to …
It’s me again, AEA365. Today’s is another that comes from the AEA365 archives, this time originally posted in 2020. This post is full of resources for conducting culturally responsive evaluations. Perhaps you’ll find something new for your evaluator toolkit. Hi, we are Shetay Ashford-Hanserd and Kathy Haynie, and we had a panel discussion at AEA 2019 entitled, “Intersectionality, …
Greetings, AEA365. Liz DiLuzio here, lead curator of the blog. Although today’s post is from the AEA365 archives, it is as relevant now as it was when it was originally posted in 2019. Whether this is your first read or your tenth, I hope you find something new and thought-provoking in this post. Greetings AEA …
“I can remember stories …,” Anita Baker, my favorite singer-songwriter, reflects on her experiences in the soulful ballad “Fairy Tales”. The lyrics strike a reflective chord. I hear how she was snapped out of happy fairy tales into the snares of reality. But before I tell you about the realities of being an external program …
Hi Everyone. I am Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos, Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Program Development and Assessment at the Institute for Biomedical Philosophy. My research interests include partnership formation, broadening participation, scientific literacy, and student success in research. I provide professional development training on inter-institutional collaborations, building consensus, and partnership formation. Just as it is …
