Evaluate Your Work

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Whether you want to reach the public, policymakers or funders, it's important to be able to provide evidence that your work is effective—using evaluations techniques that are appropriate to your goals and approach. Get tips, tools and ideas below.

Tools to Evaluate Your Work

January 24, 2012 From Geek to Chic: Using Data to Improve Education

Don't let the title fool you, the Data Quality Campaign National Data Summit was an exciting event for students and anyone who cares about school reform and ...

January 18, 2012 Archived Webinar: Do's and Don'ts for Nonprofits in an Election Year

SparkAction joined the Coalition on Human Needs, the Half in Ten campaign, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Children’s Leadership ...

November 3, 2011 Using State Tests to Measure Student Achievement in Multi-State Experiments

An important question for educational evaluators is how best to measure academic achievement, the outcome of primary interest in many studies. In large-scale ...

October 31, 2011 One Size Can't Fit All: Evaluating PreK-3 Teachers

Teacher effectiveness has emerged as a critical – and intensely-debated – issue in education reform. This November 8, 2011 webinar will highlight ...

October 18, 2011 Map of PreK-3rd Success Stories: A Work-In-Progress

This interactive PreK-3rd map recognizes states, school districts, schools, and education and advocacy organizations across the United States that are “on the ...

October 7, 2011 From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes

Everyone who runs a youth program believes in their hearts that their program helps kids – but in their heads, they know they need convincing data to ...

October 5, 2011 Teacher Quality: Educators’ Next Chapter

This column sees the a lack of, and great need for, great teachers and great teacher evaluation in Georgia.

September 30, 2011 Making it Meaningful: Building a Fair Evaluation System

This report urges policymakers and educators to abandon the usual “drive-by” evaluations found in so many schools and instead develop and adopt fair ...

August 24, 2011 Don’t Miss Out! 2011 Nonprofit Human Resources Conference

The Nonprofit Human Resources Conference is the nation's only human resources conference dedicated exclusively to meeting the educational and professional ...

August 4, 2011 Don’t Stop Collaborating – Just Stop Creating New Collaboratives

Many states and communities have multiple task forces, partnerships and councils working on overlapping youth issues, from bullying to pregnancy to dropouts. This ...

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