Writing and Implementing Solid Evaluations

Writing and Implementing Solid Evaluations

Tom McKlin, Ph.D.

President of The Findings Group, LLC
Friday, April 22, 2011        8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Georgia Center for Continuing Education

This workshop is designed to help those who pursue funding and those who evaluate those programs to build rigorous and winning evaluation plans. Creating a solid evaluation plan is the first step toward building evidence of effective practice in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Specifically, this program targets those who pursue STEM funding and will use example evaluation plans from National Science Foundation (NSF) programs. Further, investing in good evaluation planning enables a good overall proposal and helps guide and improve the day-to-day activities of the program. This workshop is suitable for those pursuing federal and state funding and for those who evaluate these programs.

Bring your proposal ideas and drafts and be prepared to:

• Clearly and succinctly model your program
• Generate evaluation questions
• Define qualitative and quantitative methods for answering those questions
• Anticipate analysis needs
• Envision formative and summative reports

Registration Deadline: April 18, 2011 @ www.coe.uga.edu/outreach/PD

Cost:  $200

The Findings Group, LLC is an Atlanta-based company providing evaluation services to K-16 public education organizations. Dr. McKlin serves as this year’s chair of the American Evaluation Association’s PreK-12 Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group. He has extensive experience with federal and state grants, is a former Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech and former Director of Evaluation at Georgia’s Leadership Institute for School Improvement. His company currently serves as the lead evaluation agency for projects at many of Georgia’s major colleges and universities, and Dr. McKlin consults with the CDC, the Computing Research Association, Georgia Bio, and the National Center for Women in Technology. He also serves on review panels for the NSF and U.S. DOE and partners with numerous school systems throughout the state. He and his staff provide program modeling; needs analysis; development of program measures; extensive data collection services; an array of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods analyses; and formative and summative reporting.

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