Evaluation and Assessment in Grant Development
A Discussion at the SCAFRO Meeting, July 14, 2016 10:30-12:00
Program Evaluation Resource Website
More about SERC Evaluation and Research
Goals
- Intro to SERC
- The role of evaluation, assessment and research in projects and proposals
- What is the difference between evaluation, assessment and research?
- When do you want what? [hidden]
- Role in project
- formative evaluation to guide program improvements
- summative evaluation to report to college, funders
- research to build knowledge/theory to apply to new situations
- assessment to understand student or faculty learning
- Examples
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- Requirements/goals of grant program
- NSF model for research as a way of increasing capacity and knowledge transfer
- NSF requirements for external summative evaluation
- HHMI interest in publications; formative feedback
- others?