Newsletter: Expectations to Change (E2C): A Process to Promote the Use of...
How can we make sure evaluation findings are used to improve projects? This is a question on the minds of evaluators, project staff, and funders alike. The Expectations to Change (E2C) process is one...
View ArticleNewsletter: Lessons Learned about Building Evaluation into ATE Proposals: A...
Having made a career of community college administration, first as a grant writer and later as a college president, I know well the power of grants in advancing a college’s mission. Somewhere in the...
View ArticleNewsletter: Everyday Evaluation
At EvaluATE, evaluation is a shared responsibility. We have a wonderful external evaluator, Dr. Lana Rucks, with whom we meet a few times a year in person and talk to on the phone about every other...
View ArticleNewsletter: Have You Overlooked Data That Might Strengthen Your Project...
Many institutions of higher education collect very useful quantitative data as part of their regular operational and reporting processes. Why not put it to good use for your project evaluations or...
View ArticleNewsletter: Why Does the NSF Worry about Project/Center Evaluation?
I often use a quick set of questions that Dr. Gerhard Salinger developed in response to the question, “How do you develop an excellent proposal?” Question 4 is especially relevant to the issue of...
View ArticleNewsletter: An Evaluative Approach to Proposal Development
A student came into my office to ask me a question. Soon after she launched into her query, I stopped her and said I wasn’t the right person to help because she was asking about a statistical method...
View ArticleNewsletter: Shorten the Evaluation Learning Curve: Avoid These Common Pitfalls
This EvaluATE newsletter issue is focused on getting started with evaluation. It’s oriented to new ATE principal investigators who are getting their projects off the ground, but I think it holds some...
View ArticleNewsletter: Revisiting Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact
If you have ever written a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) or participated in a proposal review panel for NSF, you probably instantly recognize the terms Intellectual Merit and...
View ArticleNewsletter: Three Questions and Examples to Spur Action from Your Evaluation...
1) Are there any unexpected findings in the report? The EvaluATE team has been surprised to learn that we are attracting a large number of grant writers and other grant professionals to our webinars....
View ArticleNewsletter: Getting the Most out of Your Logic Model
I recently led two workshops at the American Evaluation Association’s Summer Evaluation Institute. To get a sense of the types of projects that the participants were working on, I asked them to send me...
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