| Abstract:
The year began with funding from one major client and ended with a minor client, a development partner, and new major project. I was asked to do some simple survey-based evaluations. At the end of the year, I became a member of the evaluation team of a state-wide teacher education initiative. Unconventionally, I was asked by my major client not to perform one program evaluation, but to evaluate all of their programs involving multiple populations - undergraduates, pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and university faculty. Additionally, I was asked to manage a workforce study resulting in a system dynamics model, conduct two peer reviews, and conduct one program review. This paper will discuss the unconventional skills and tasks I was asked to perform to provide a complete evaluation service to all of my clients, especially those not taught in my program evaluator graduate program.
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