In this free, 90-minute webinar, participants learn how to make evaluation a strong component of their ATE proposals. Staff from the ATE Evaluation Resource Center provide guidance about how to focus an ATE evaluation, develop a plan for data collection and analysis, describe the evaluation in a proposal, and work with an evaluator.

The webinar features NSF-ATE program officer Linnea Fletcher, who will provide NSF’s perspective on these topics, Gordon Snyder and Karl Kapp, a veteran ATE PI-evaluator team, also join the webinar, talking about their successful experiences working together on funded ATE proposals.

Participants leave the webinar with the knowledge and tools and they need to
*Define the purpose of the evaluation and how the results will be used
*Write clear and useful evaluation questions tied to the project’s intended outcomes
*Be responsive to NSF’s expectations for ATE evaluations
*Systematically identify question- and context-appropriate data collection methods and information sources
*Locate data collection instruments
*Create a feedback loop so project staff can use evaluation results to improve their efforts
*Find competent evaluators and budget for their work