Evaluation: The Secret Sauce in Your ATE Proposal

Collection Description:
This collection, provided by Western Michigan University Evaluation Center, includes a webinar recording and related resources that cover how to develop an effective evaluation plan and incorporate it into an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) proposal. Evaluation is defined as "a systematic determination of a project's quality and effectiveness." Topics covered include: selecting an evaluator; developing evaluation questions; logic models; data collection, analysis, and interpretation; developing a timeline; and more. The webinar concludes with a question and answer session.

Collection Contents:
This collection includes a webinar recording that runs 1:32:15 minutes in length and seven PDF handouts. The handouts include the following titles: ATE Proposal Evaluation Plan Template, Evaluation Data Matrix Template, Evaluator Biographical Sketch Template for National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposals, Evaluation Plan Checklist for ATE Proposals, Finding and Selecting an Evaluator for Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Proposals, What Counts as Independent, and an untitled sample external evaluator timeline is also included. 

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Evaluation - ATE Proposal (9 files, 406.8 MB)

• Evaluation Plan Checklist for ATE Proposals (Checklist-EvalPlan-2019-1.pdf 126 KB)
• Evaluation Data Matrix Template (eval-matrix-2017.pdf 150 KB
• ATE Proposal Evaluation Plan Template (eval-plan-template-3.pdf 84 KB)
• Evaluation: the Secret Sauce in Your ATE Proposal (Evaluation_ The Secret Sauce in Your ATE Proposal_9_0(1).mp4 406 MB)
• Evaluator Biographical Sketch Template for National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposals (evaluator-biosketch-template.pdf 110 KB)
• What counts as independent? (External-Evaluator_Part2.pdf 75 KB)
• (External-Evaluator_ Timeline.pdf 60 KB)
• Finding and Selecting an Evaluator for Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Proposals (finding-and-selecting-an-evaluator.pdf 143 KB)