Project Level Evaluation Practices

This 8-page report, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses project-level evaluation practices that occur in the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). "Of special interest in this study were factors thought to affect the quality and utility of evaluations such as the cost of evaluations, who engaged in evaluation planning, and the use of external evaluators." The report includes the following sections: Abstract, Project-Level Evaluation, Principle Investigators' Perceptions of Evaluation's Usefulness, Characteristics of External Evaluators and External Evaluations, What Does This Mean? Summing Up, and References.