EvaluATE Blog

NVC Handbook

The purpose of this handbook is to help those who are responsible for organizing, planning, or conducting NVC meetings. The NVC Handbook is not intended to establish policy, nor does it necessarily apply to other NSF programs.

November 14, 2017 | John Cosgrove, Maggie Cosgrove

Partnering with Clients to Avoid Drive-by Evaluation

If a prospective client says, “We need an evaluation, and we will send you the dataset for evaluation,” our advice is that...

October 17, 2017 | Lori Wingate

Getting Your New ATE Project’s Evaluation off to a Great Start

New ATE project principal investigators (PIs): When you worked with your evaluator to develop an evaluation plan for your project proposal, you...

Communication Plan for ATE Principal Investigators and Evaluators

The communication plan should be an agreement between the project’s principal investigator and the evaluator, and followed by members of their respective teams. This checklist highlights the decisions that need to made when developing a clear communication plan.

September 27, 2017 | Benjamin Reid

Sustaining Private Evaluation Practices: Overcoming Challenges by Collaborating within Our ATE Community of Practice

My name is Ben Reid. I am the founder of Impact Allies, a private evaluation firm. The focus of this post is...

August 2, 2017 | John Dorris, Dominick Stephenson

Integrating Perspectives for a Quality Evaluation Design

Designing a rigorous and informative evaluation depends on communication with program staff to understand planned activities and how those activities relate to...