| Session Title: Strategies for Developing Evaluation Capacity in Educational Partnerships |
| Demonstration Session 731 to be held in Texas E on Saturday, Nov 13, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM |
| Sponsored by the Evaluation Use TIG , the Pre-K - 12 Educational Evaluation TIG, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation TIG, and the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Ed McLain, University of Alaska, Anchorage, afeam1@uaa.alaska.edu |
| Susan Tucker, Evaluation & Development Associates, sutucker1@mac.com |
| 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 USDE-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 six years experience with data teaming, and address emerging findings & challenges in relationship to the three points posed under the “Relevance” section. Finally, we present and discuss a data-teaming template with rubrics. |