The following blog on Small Business by Leah Goldstein Moses was first published on the American Evaluation Association AEA 365 blog this week:
October 8, 2012 - 3:34pm
Many organizations seek external evaluators –whether to gain objectivity, expertise, or capacity. They often find their external evaluator through a competition using a request for proposal (RFP). The RFP invites multiple evaluators to submit a proposal.
October 1, 2012 - 2:09pm
Response to Intervention - by Leah Goldstein Moses & Cecelia Dodge
October 1, 2012 - 2:02pm
In a Randomized Control Trial (RCT), people are selected to receive a service at random, and results for both selected and non-selected people are tracked over time. RCTs are sometimes called the “gold standard” of evaluation. However, ethical, pragmatic or resource issues often make RCT a poor choice for evaluation.
What do people like about RCTs?
September 25, 2012 - 3:57pm
As a result of the Improve Group’s partnership with Cecelia Dodge & Associates, LLC, we are offering a series of articles this fall that highlight the ways data can be used to improve instruction and transform schools for the achievement of ALL learners.
September 24, 2012 - 2:48pm
As a result of the Improve Group’s partnership with Cecelia Dodge & Associates, LLC, we are offering a series of articles this fall that highlight the ways data can be used to improve instruction and transform schools for the achievement of ALL learners.
July 12, 2012 - 5:58pm
Over the past several months, the Improve Group team spent some time reflecting on how cultural competence informs and is present in our work. There is extensive academic and practical work focusing on cultural competence, and we were able to explore several definitions (such as in this compilation).
Cultural competence is important to evaluation practice for several reasons:
