Involvement in structured and unstructured activities has positive effects on academic achievement for Latino youth. In order for school staff to be effective in crafting intervention strategies, it is important to have a holistic picture of the culture of activities that students are involved...
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The gap/bridge year movement is on the rise in the U.S., and Global Citizen Year, a growing program receiving significant external support, recruits and trains a diverse corps of high-potential graduating seniors and immerses them in emerging economies during a “bridge year” between high school...
Gap Year Program (Nina Hoe).pdf
With the increasing interest in collective action and networked organizations, evaluators are exploring ways to assess the value of network implementation and impact. This presentation describes The College Access network survey, which assesses network attributes and organizational structure...
This is the presentation used during Demonstration Session 279 - Deploying a Common Evaluation Framework Applicable to a Variety of College Access and Success Funding and Program Strategies. Demonstration Session Abstract: This session will focus on the development and deployment of a common...
USA Funds_2012 10 25_AEA Presentation.pdf
Real-time evaluation (RTE) is one of the field’s latest responses to evaluation reports that come too late to be actionable or relevant. Our clients (which includes nonprofits and foundations) operate in complex ecologies and program implementation is not straightforward. As a result, they are...
AEA 2012 RTE with Juma Ventures FINAL2.pdf
The most pertinent program evaluation practices in Japanese education are seen in the evaluation in the prefectural institutes for educational research. There are almost 70 institutes in the 47 prefectures and 19 Ordinance-designated cities. Those institutes combine missions of carrying out...
Eval12 Session 378AkiHashi.ppt
"The Evolution of Responsive Education Program Evaluation at the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals" 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Session Abstract: The Iowa State University...
AEA 2012-10.23.12.pdf
This session examines lessons learned from two strategies designed to build evaluation capacity in college access and success programs. The first strategy is an online toolkit that helps program staff design and implement effective evaluations with or without the help of external evaluators. The...
Session 654 hand out, AEA 2010 #CollegeAccessPrograms #2010Conference #AssessmentinHigherEducation #DiversityandInclusion #IndigenousPeoplesinEvaluation #MultiethnicIssuesinEvaluation
Session 654_Ah Sam_AEA 2010 handout.doc
Here is a pdf of my poster session regarding evaluating Upward Bound programs using data from NELS 88:2000. If anyone is interested in the full paper, please let me know. Thanks for your feedback and comments! #GraduateStudentandNewEvaluators #CollegeAccessPrograms #2010Conference
Coverdale_EvaluatingUB_Handout.pdf