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AHE TIG Week: Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey on How Do You Conduct an Evaluation in a Fluid, Ever Changing Ecology Like Higher Education?

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 1, 2013

Our names are Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey. We are faculty and evaluators in the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at Oklahoma State University. Higher education has constantly been engaged in the development, revamping, and implementation of programs. Often these changes result in reorganizations of existing programs and contribute to a dynamic …

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CREATE Week: James Stronge and Xianxuan Xu on Lesson Learned Regarding Teacher Effectiveness and Teacher Evaluation

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 30, 2013

Hi! We are James Stronge and Xianxuan Xu. I am a Professor of Education at the College of William and Mary. For 20 plus years, I have worked with state departments of education, school districts, and national and international educational organizations to design and implement teacher and leader evaluation systems. Xian is a post-doctoral research …

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CREATE Week: Barbara B. Howard and Don Klinger on The Classroom Assessment Standards: Guidelines for Teacher Practice

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 29, 2013

We are Barbara B. Howard from Appalachian State University and Don Klinger of Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. We are professors and work with the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.  We would like to report on the Classroom Assessment Standards that were developed by the  Joint Committee.  The Joint Committee uses a systematic process …

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CREATE Week: Marco Muñoz on Evaluation Within a School System

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 27, 2013

I’m Marco Muñoz, Evaluation Specialist at Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY) and Past-President of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE). Today, I am writing about evaluations within a large urban school system. Lessons Learned: In a recent presentation at CREATE, we discussed how heuristic practices help when it comes …

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CREATE Week: Jim Van Haneghan on CREATE as a Resource for Educational Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 26, 2013

My name is Jim Van Haneghan and I am writing about the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE).  CREATE focuses on educational evaluation and is a useful complement to my participation in the American Evaluation Association (AEA).  CREATE was started back in the 1990s by Daniel Stufflebeam and others at the …

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EdEval Week: Veronica Smith on Engaging Teachers in STEM Curriculum and Assessment Development

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 12, 2012

I am Veronica Smith, principal of data2insight, an evaluation and research firm specializing in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program evaluation. We worked with Washington Global Health Alliance (WGHA), a consortium of  research universities and non-profit organizations in Washington state, on the evaluation of an interdisciplinary curriculum program called Ambassadors. WGHA Ambassadors (WGHAA) aims …

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EdEval Week: Tiffany Berry and Kathryn Edwards on New Assessment Systems Designed to Align with Common Core Standards

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 12, 2012

Hi! My name is Tiffany Berry and I’m a research associate professor at Claremont Graduate University. My colleague, Kathryn Edwards, is an educational evaluator from the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). I recently attended a training hosted by LACOE on the assessment systems that will replace our state standardized tests starting in 2014-2015. …

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Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer on NWEA’s Data Gallery and Standardized Educational Testing

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Government Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / September 1, 2011

My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …

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Lillian Rivera on Thinking beyond the gender binary on assessments: Notes from the field

2 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / July 8, 2011

I am Lillian Rivera, After School Program Director for Hetrick-Martin Institute, a community-based organization that provides programs for LGBT teens that focus on arts and culture, health and wellness, job readiness, academic enrichment as well as counseling and HIV prevention services to 1,500 youth annually.  HMI’s HIV prevention work allows us to work with various …

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Leslie K. Grier on Evaluation Practices in Out-of-School Programs

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / September 1, 2011

My name is Leslie K. Grier and I am an Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Studies at California State University, Fullerton.  I am interested in quality programming and evaluation practices in out-of-school time programs.  My interests also include moral and character development and their relationship to academic achievement. Although the terms moral and character …

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