Thursday, April 9
3:30-3:45 PM
EDT
Room 6 - https://tinyurl.com/siteroom6

Evaluation is not just for NSF: Tools and strategies for using evaluation to empower, learn and grow successful programs (and get funded)

Live / Synchronous ID: 56624
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    Jason Ravitz
    Evaluation by Design

Abstract: This conference features creative and ambitious educational leaders striving to create and share best practices. But how do you know you have best practices and how do you convince others? This session will help provide insights, guidance and tools for educational leaders and organizations who are in the process of developing offerings and want to add value by being smarter about evaluation. We will start with inspirational examples of initiatives that incorporated evaluation into their design thinking, and the opportunities for alignment that resulted. Next we share free online tools and resources that can help you plan and streamline your work, often while increasing credibility and utility. Based on a successful professional development course and workshop -- and drawing from innovations in empowerment evaluation and online tools -- this session will help participants learn to produce more worthwhile evaluations for their educational technology programs. This work originated at Google with CS and STEM nonprofits and educators, and has been used in workforce training, a mobile app to learn coding, a graduate school self-study, and other projects. Benefits for attendees may include clarifying how you communicate about your programs, renewed focus on evaluating what matters most, and ensuring ways to collect analyze more compelling evidence. This session will be of interest to educators and organizations seeking to learn, improve and grow effective programs.

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