A Toolkit for Improving Professional Development Evaluation

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 challenge that's focussed on is "Measuring if Professional Development activities foster the growth of the knowledge, skills, and productive attitudes of students who are pursuing technician careers in STEM fields." Through this focus, the project developed the Professional Development Formative Assessment System (PD-FAS). This assessment system includes a logic model for PD, a checklist, and tools and templates that match the checklist steps.

This recorded webinar runs 47:31 minutes in length.