Evaluation

Options for DR K-12 Project Evaluations

Day
Wed

CADRE invites feedback on a draft paper that describes how evaluation can add value to an R&D project, with special attention to the challenges of making a distinction between evaluation and the project’s research activities.

Date/Time
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Session Type
Product Feedback Session
Presenters

CADRE is developing a concise "options paper" on project evaluation and invites your feedback in this session. The draft paper, to be distributed to participants, describes challenges in evaluating an R&D project (e.g., how to distinguish between evaluation and the project's research activities). It identifies options for current project leaders, evaluators, and prospective grant applicants to consider. Your feedback in the session will help improve the paper before CADRE revises and distributes it.

Evaluators SIG

Day
Thu

Open to all grantees

An informal meeting for project evaluators will provide an opportunity to share evaluation approaches and perspectives, and to discuss shared challenges and concerns. 

Date/Time
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Session Type
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Facilitators

Research and Evaluation

Day
Fri

Researchers and evaluators will consider the purposes and functions of evaluation in DR K-12 research and development projects, and test different approaches in a working session.

Date/Time
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Session Type
Panel

The session will focus on:  1) considerations about the relationship of evaluation and research in terms of purposes/functions of evaluation for a DR K-12 development and/or research project; and 2) balancing internal/external/advisory board roles within those purposes/functions of evaluation. Panelists will comment on how projects they are involved in—as investigators or evaluators—have negotiated these considerations.