| Session Title: Contexts and Institutionalization of Collaborative Data Use: A Demonstration of an Iterative Process for Developing Evaluation Capacity in Nine School Districts |
| Demonstration Session 796 to be held in Panzacola Section H3 on Saturday, Nov 14, 11:50 AM to 12:35 PM |
| Sponsored by the Evaluation Use TIG and the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Ed McLain, University of Alaska Anchorage, ed@uaa.alaska.edu |
| Susan Tucker, Evaluation and Development Associates LLC, sutucker1@mac.com |
| Patricia Chesbro, University of Alaska Anchorage, afprc@uaa.alaska.edu |
| Nancy Boxler, University of Alaska Anchorage, annjb1@uaa.alaska.edu |
| Abstract: Building the capacity of school-based "data teams" to use improvement-oriented evaluation methodologies across diverse contexts, while exhorted by funding agencies, is rarely evaluated. The presenters have been engaged in capacity building since 2004-05 in collaboration with a federally-funded Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) grant. Grounded in the context of nine Alaskan high-need urban and rural districts experiencing a crisis in attracting (and holding) quality teachers, this session will focus on demonstrating methods for institutionalizing an infrastructure for sustainable data teaming and evaluation use. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the indicators of successful data use development and partnering between a university and project schools. The session will begin with an overview of the past four years experience with data teaming, and address emerging findings & challenges in relationship to the two questions posed under the "Relevance" section. Finally, we present and discuss a data-teaming template with rubrics. |