April 15, 2020 | Lori Wingate
Beyond Reporting: Getting More Value out of Your Evaluation*
If you’ve been a part of the ATE community for any time at all, you probably already know that ATE projects are required...
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April 2, 2020 | Faye R. Jones, Marcia A. Mardis
Backtracking Alumni: Using Institutional Research and Reflective Inquiry to Improve Organizational Learning
In a recent blog post, we shared practical tips for developing an alumni tracking program to assess students’ employment outcomes. Alumni tracking is an effective tool for assessing the quality...
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March 18, 2020 | Lori Wingate
Strategies and Sources for Interpreting Evaluation Findings to Reach Conclusions
Imagine: You’re an evaluator who has compiled lots of data about an ATE project. You’re preparing to present the results to stakeholders. You have many beautiful charts and compelling stories...
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March 4, 2020 | Lori Wingate
Three Questions to Spur Action from Your Evaluation Report
Evaluators are urged to make their evaluations useful. Project staff are encouraged to use their evaluations. An obvious way to support these...
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February 19, 2020 | Aeron Zentner
Understanding Data Literacy
In today’s data-filled society, institutions are abundant with data but lack data literacy, the ability to transform data into usable information and...
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February 5, 2020 | David Keyes
How I Came to Learn R, and Why You Should Too!
A few years ago, I left my job on the research team at the Oregon Community Foundation and started working as an...
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