education

Chad Green on Context -Specific Evaluation of School-wide Initiatives

I’m Chad Green, Program Analyst at Loudoun County Public Schools in Ashburn, VA. For over seven years I’ve served as an internal evaluator of instructional initiatives sponsored by central office administrators. Do you have an interest in understanding school-based professional development from a sociocultural learning perspective?  Read on! Years ago I evaluated two school-wide improvement …

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

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 …

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Ed Eval Week: Tiffany Berry on Resources for Educational Evaluators

Hello! My name is Tiffany Berry and I am a research associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, associate director of the Claremont Evaluation Center, and the chair for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Welcome to our 3rd annual sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. For those who are unfamiliar with our TIG, …

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FIE/MME Week: Donna Podems on Applying Feminist Evaluation for Non-feminist Evaluators

Hello, I am Donna Podems, founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa.  We work with a wide range of international and local donors who fund a wide variety of technical interventions in areas such as environment, education, health, community development and human rights. …

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LGBT Week: Jason Taylor on the Educational Context for LGBT Youth

My name is Jason Taylor and I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I study programs and policies related to educational access, equity, and success, particularly as they relate to higher education. Among the tragic legacies of 2011 is the widespread publicity …

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Gita Upreti and Carl Liaupsin on Developing Efficient Measures with Educational Data

Hi, we are Gita Upreti, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Carl Liaupsin, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Much of our work involves implementing broad academic and behavioral changes in educational systems. As such, we’ve had a front row seat to observe the explosion of educational …

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WMU Scribing: Maran Subramain on Communications Challenges in Evaluation

My name is Maran Subramain and I am a graduate student at Western Michigan University. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010 and attended session number 577, Communication: At What level Does It Help or Hinder Evaluation Capacity? I chose this session because, as a fairly new graduate student in the evaluation program, …

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David Urias on the Analysis of Photo Journaling

My name is David Urias. I am the Founding Director of the Evaluation Research Network at Drexel University. In an earlier posting, I shared the basic concepts of photo journaling. This time, I want to talk about the value and process of using photo journaling as an evaluative tool of student participant growth trajectories. Hot …

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David Urias on a Unique Reflective Tool as an Evaluative Component

My name is David Urias. I am the Founding Director of the Evaluation Research Network at Drexel University. I would like to introduce you to the value and process of using photo journaling as an evaluative tool of student participant growth trajectories in a variety of learning experiences. Photo Journaling enables participants to express, capture, …

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Debra Thrower on Working with Low-income Families

My name is Debra Thrower, and I am a social worker and a former university administrator. I have served as the Project Director for federally funded, community and faith-based after-school programs. Additionally, I have external evaluation experience, as well as meta-evaluation experience.  I would like to share what I have learned and monitored over a …

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