Making the Most of Your Evaluation: How to Use Evaluation Findings to Benefit Your Project

This webinar, published by Western Michigan University Evaluation Center, discusses evaluation findings and how they can be put to use for the benefit of ATE projects. The video addresses how evaluations can help projects adjust in uncertain times, how to integrate evaluation findings into an annual report to the NSF, and how evaluation can help ATE participants think more intentionally about long-term goals. In the video, Lyssa W. Becho and Michael Harnar introduce the importance of evaluation; explore how projects can use evaluations for project improvement, dissemination and advocacy, project accountability, and project planning; share three stories on the use of evaluation to benefit projects; and provide two Q&A breaks.

The webinar recording runs 58:47 minutes in length. Webinar slides and a user checklist are included. The 3-page user checklist provides thirteen ways to use evaluation findings.