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Data Collection Planning Matrix

This tool can help users to ensure that they have developed a viable plan for collecting all the data necessary to answer each evaluation question and that all data collected will serve a specific, intended purpose.

Evaluating Network Growth through Social Network Analysis

One of the most impactful learning experiences from the ATE Principal Investigators Conference I attended in October 2016 was the growing use...

How to create a retrospective pre-post survey in Google Forms

We had a great question come in through Twitter- “Q: Any clue how to structure items for retrospective pre-post surveys in #GoogleForms?”...

Scavenging Evaluation Data

But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go...

Evaluating Creativity in the Context of STEAM Education

At The Findings Group, we are assessing a National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 project that gives students an opportunity to learn...

Course Improvement Through Evaluation: Improving Undergraduate STEM Majors’ Capacity for Delivering Inquiry-Based Mathematics and Science Lessons

One of the goals of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) UTeach program is to produce mathematics and science teachers who not only...

ATE PI 2016- A Practical Approach to Outcome Evaluation: Step-by-Step

ATE PI 2016 Workshop- A Practical Approach to Outcome Evaluation: Step-by-Step

Possible Selves: A Way to Assess Identity and Career Aspirations

Children are often asked the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Many of us evaluate programs where...