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These resources, developed by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, include ten hints and ten fatal flaws to consider while preparing an ATE proposal's evaluation plan. The first resource is a 1-page summary of these hints. The other 5-page resource includes...

This webinar, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses the retrospective pretest method for evaluating professional developmental training activities. Webinar objectives include design retrospective pretest questions; analyze and report data...

This 50-page report, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, includes the findings of the annual survey of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects. "The purpose of the survey was to better understand the nature of the ATE projects and to...

This 4-page document was developed by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) for the 2019 NSF Annual Report. This resource summarizes the results from seven years worth of data from on-line longitudinal surveys of attendees from past Summer Working Connections faculty professional...

This paper from Wayne W. Welch of the University of Minnesota details a method for evaluating Advanced Technological Education Project and Centers. As the abstract states: "This document presents a new method to help ATE team leaders and others address their evaluation needs. It is a survey that...

This report from Wayne Welch of the University of Minnesota looks at the sustainability of the Advanced Technological Education Program by building on a previous survey administered to ATE Projects and Centers in 2009. As the paper states: "A survey implemented by the Evaluation Center at Western...

This collection, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Center for Advanced Technological Education, includes two reports on a study of the use of advisory committees by ATE projects and centers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) requires National Visiting Committees (advisory committees) for all ATE...

This webinar, from Edmonds Community College, introduces the FAS4ATE2 project and discusses professional development (PD) assessment challenges and instruction assessment tools. The webinar begins with a discussion about PD, PD challenges, and a background study conducted by the project. The main...

This paper, by Richard E. Satchwell and William E. Duggar, Jr., from the Technology for All Americans Project in Blacksburg, Virginia, introduces their project and the results consensus building activities that they conducted at technology education meetings around the United States. Technology...

Description: This webinar, made available by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education (ATE), provides strategies for adapting ATE evaluations for social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered include: changes in inputs and/or resources in the logic...