common core standards

Ed Eval Week: Anne Marshall on Gearing up to Evaluate in the Age of the Common Core

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 10, 2013 May 10, 2013

My name is Anne Marshall, Director of Research and Evaluation for the Center for Collaborative Education. PreK-12 education and educational evaluation are a-buzz with phrases like “21st century skills,” “college and career ready,” and, of course, “Common Core State Standards (CCSS).” With these new changes, evaluators may be feeling the same initiative fatigue that many …

Ed Eval Week: Anne Marshall on Gearing up to Evaluate in the Age of the Common Core Read More »

STEM Week: Kim Kelly on Responding to National Curriculum and Policy Initiatives in STEM Education Evaluation

I’m Kim Kelly, PhD, from the Psychology Department at the University of Southern California where I teach undergraduate courses in statistics, research methods, psychobiology and human development. I have been involved in the evaluation of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) curriculum and professional development programs since 2002. These courses and projects are focused on …

STEM Week: Kim Kelly on Responding to National Curriculum and Policy Initiatives in STEM Education Evaluation Read More »

PD CoP Week: Donna Campell on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 3 – Organizational Support and Learning

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Government Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / August 22, 2012 July 27, 2012

I’m Donna Campbell, Director of Professional Development Capacity Building at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). The Professional Development Leadership Academy (PDLA) is a three-year long curriculum of training and back-home application for school and district teams based on the Learning Forward Professional Learning Standards, derived from research. Lesson Learned: Legislation supports evaluation. I’ve learned …

PD CoP Week: Donna Campell on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 3 – Organizational Support and Learning Read More »

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 9, 2012 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. …

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

EdEval Week: Deborah Mattila on Evaluation of Learning and Teaching 21st Century Skills

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 8, 2012 May 12, 2012

I am Deborah Mattila, Research and Evaluation Director at the Improve Group. Over the last several years I have had the pleasure of evaluating many school-based initiatives that explicitly and implicitly address development and application of 21st Century Skills, a set of learning and innovation skills built around the 4 Cs of Critical Thinking, Communication, …

EdEval Week: Deborah Mattila on Evaluation of Learning and Teaching 21st Century Skills Read More »