Hello, everyone! My name is Leigh M. Tolley. I am a Member-at-Large for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG), and have spent the past nine years as part of our TIG’s Program Chair and Chair teams. My interest in educational evaluation began when I was a high school English teacher and we had …
Hi! My name is Carrie Wiley. I’m a Senior Staff Scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) and would like to share some useful tips on manipulating strings in R. As educational evaluators, we often manage complex and messy datasets that we receive from schools, states, teachers, etc. One of the most common data …
Hello, we are Haley Johnson and Natasha Saelua, Researchers at McREL International. This spring we were tasked with evaluating a school-wide, comprehensive, rigorous academic K-12 program. We were asked to include a cost analysis of the program compared to similar programs. A clear-cut quantitative analysis would have sufficed but our team conducted a mixed methods …
Hi everyone! I’m Erin D’Amelio, a consultant at McREL International. Even though I am in no way shape or form a listening expert, I hope that this little blog can serve as a starting point, or maybe a forum for us to share our individual knowledge, thoughts, and experiences related to listening and learn from …
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Aloha kakou. We are Mark Yu, Darienne Dey and Natasha Saelua, researchers with McREL International based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. We are honored to share our lessons learned using the Evaluation with Aloha framework in our work with schools and teachers. We learned about Evaluation with Aloha from the Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment-Hawai‘i (CREA-HI). The …
Hi! I’m Lisa M. Jones, Chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) and Senior Managing Researcher/Evaluator at McREL International. What a great time to kick off Teachers’ Week with an AEA365 blog! Right now, our McREL team is evaluating a program spanning grades K-12. Our client wants to know if the program …
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 …
