Congratulations to Scott Burg and colleague Liz Bandy on their blog series for KQED, Disrupting Public Media! Check out Disrupting Public Media here. This monthly series explores KQED’s journey to transform into a 21st century public media organization through disruptive innovation. Working with KQED, researchers Elizabeth Bandy and Scott Burg will cover new strategies and […]
Scott Burg Presenting at WMAC
Scott Burg, along with Lauren Silver (VP of Education at the Computer History Museum), will be presenting a session entitled ‘Case Studies in Program Evaluation: Gathering and Analyzing Data to Shape Change’ at the Western Museum Association Conference in San Jose, CA.
Funding Doesn’t Follow National Praise for Civic Education
An article by Edweek cites Rockman et al’s evaluation of National History Day in discussing the importance of civics education.
Assessing for and with Digital Badging Programs
By Jennifer Borland Reposted from yourevalpal Over the course of the past three years, I’ve had an opportunity to study and evaluate digital learning programs offered by the Smithsonian, and the Smithsonian Center for Digital Learning and Access – including a series of online conferences and a digital badging program called “Smithsonian Quests.” In preparation […]
The Dino Does It! Advantages of Creative Survey Incentives
By Jennifer Borland Reposted from yourevalpal There is a certain art to figuring out the right incentive to drive participation for any kind of evaluation activity. Do you offer something small to everyone who participates, or a chance to win one or a small number of more valuable incentives? Offer too much and you might […]