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Impact Evaluation: Why, What, and How

Quick Reference Guides

The following is a collection of evaluation quick reference guides EvaluATE collected in collaboration with the evaluation community. Quick reference guides are practical reference or resource materials such as checklists, worksheets, templates, info-graphics, cheat sheets, or even a table or page in a book

Impact Evaluation: Why, What, and How

This webinar is an introduction to impact evaluation and how it can be realistically implemented in ATE projects.

Evaluating Professional Development Projects*

A good prompt to start thinking about how to approach the evaluation of an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) professional development (PD) project...

Kirkpatrick Model for ATE Evaluation

The Kirkpatrick Model is an evaluation framework organized around four levels of impact: reaction, learning, behavior, and results. It was developed more...

What Grant Writers Need to Know About Evaluation

Fellow grant writers: Do you ever stop and ask yourselves, “Why do we write grants?” Do you actually enjoy herding cats, pulling...

11 Important Things to Know About Evaluating Curriculum Development Projects*

Curriculum development projects are designed to create new content or present content to students in a new format with new activities or...

Evaluation Plan for ATE Proposals

This checklist provides information on what should be included in evaluation plans for proposals to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. Grant seekers should carefully read the most recent ATE program solicitation (ATE Program Solicitation) for details about the program and proposal submission requirements.

Completing a National Science Foundation Freedom of Information Act Request

You probably have heard of a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, but it was probably in the context of journalism. Often,...