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AHE TIG Week: Tamara Bertrand Jones on Creating an Assessment Culture

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 4, 2013 July 4, 2013

Hello, I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones. I’m an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University and a former Director of Research and Evaluation in Student Affairs. Assessment in higher education has largely been used for external accountability. Divisions and departments can use these external mandates for internal improvement and make assessment part of daily …

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PD CoP Week: Anne D’Agostino, Jennifer Coyle, and June Gothberg on Building a Cross-Community Collaborative Evaluation Community of Practice

Greetings, we are Anne D’Agostino, of Compass Evaluation and Research, and Jennifer Coyle and June Gothberg representing the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC). We would like to share tips and lessons learned about building an evaluation community of practice. As part of their agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special …

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Regan Grandy on Newly Amended FERPA Regulation Helps Educational Evaluation

4 Comments / Government Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Research on Evaluation, Uncategorized, Youth Focused Evaluation / March 26, 2012 March 2, 2012

I’m Regan Grandy, and I’ve worked as an evaluator for Spectrum Research Evaluation and Development for six years. My work is primarily evaluating U.S. Department of Education-funded grant projects with school districts across the nation. Lessons Learned – Like some of you, I’ve found it difficult, at times, gaining access to extant data from school …

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Gregory Greenman on Gathering Information From College Students

2 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / February 27, 2012 April 3, 2012

I am Gregory D. Greenman II, the Evaluation and Assessment Coordinator at the Center for Community and Learning Partnerships at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT). I am also the Massachusetts Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA at WIT. For the past six months, I have been working on evaluating and assessing the Center’s civic engagement programs and the …

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Shonta Smith on Student Ratings of Instruction: Evaluating the Professor

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / December 30, 2010 September 2, 2011

I am Dr. Shonta Smith, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary, Early and Special Education at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau Missouri. Like my fellow university professors, I too, am evaluated each semester by my students in order to assess my overall teaching performance. The purpose of the evaluation is to …

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David Urias on the Analysis of Photo Journaling

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / November 21, 2010 April 20, 2011

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

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / November 14, 2010 October 21, 2010

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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Brad Coverdale on Using the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988-2000

1 Comment / College Access Programs, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / October 20, 2010 September 21, 2010

My name is Brad Coverdale and I am a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am interested in researching post-secondary access as well as success initiatives for students, particularly first-generation and/or low income. One of these initiatives that was very dear to me was Upward Bound. As such, I conducted a …

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Leslie Kirby McConnell on Student Data Consent

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 3, 2010 September 1, 2011

Greetings! I am Leslie McConnell, a grants and evaluation specialist at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a regional education service agency in Pittsburgh, PA. My team and I conduct external evaluations of state, regional, and local educational initiatives for the purposes of accountability and program improvement. If you work with student and program data, it’s critical …

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