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Program evaluation, done the
right way, is a constructive tool for guiding initiatives as
well as for documenting their outcomes: increasing the chances
of success, reducing risks, helping control costs and reduce
burdens on staff.
The TLT Group’s Flashlight
Program is well-known for its expertise in evaluation of grants,
programs, and services. This consulting work can range from an
hour (e.g., suggesting a plan) to many weeks of effort:
designing studies, developing surveys and interview guides,
gathering data, analysis, developing recommendations. We
can also apply a unique and new powerful strategy to program
evaluation: the matrix survey.
Examples of past TLT Group
program evaluations:
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: year-long
external evaluation of
the $25 million
MIT iCampus program, funded by Microsoft. iCampus
developed educational web services and software that can be
shared with, and modified by, other institutions. The
TLT/Flashlight study focused on factors affecting whether
these projects were adopted and adapted by other faculty, at
MIT and around the world. [Click
here to see their response to our study.]
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Oregon State University - support for their evaluation of
their course management system's impact.
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Morton College - external evaluation of Title V grant
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Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis - support
for their formative evaluation of ePortfolio initiative.
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Old
Dominion University: formative evaluation for a training
program about other cultures, for the U.S. Navy.
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CREOLE
(Creating Optimum Learning Environments) Project on
faculty development, led by Florida Community College at
Jacksonville, Virginia Tech, PBS, and 35 community colleges.
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Joliet
Junior College -evaluation of Joliet's distance learning
operation and associated elements of faculty support.
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Minnesota
Private Colleges Council.
External evaluation of a three-state project fostering
information literacy through increased use of online library
resources (JSTOR). Project funded by Mellon and Bush
Foundations.
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St. Edward’s
University – external evaluation
of multi-year grant to prepare teachers to use technology in
their teaching (PT3 grant).
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St. Edward's
University - follow-up survey of students in
St. Edward's adult education program, New College, and the
Center for Professional and Graduate Studies on their
experience with and views on online courses.
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Visible
Knowledge Project, Georgetown University. The Visible
Knowledge Project (VKP) worked to improve the quality of college
and university teaching by focusing on both student learning
and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments.
Steve Ehrmann, Director of the Flashlight Program, provided evaluative consulting to VKP over the life of the
project.
For some more ideas about how we approach
the evaluation of grant-funded technology projects, take a
look at this
chapter on the Flashlight Approach and this chapter on "How
(not) to Evaluate a Grant-Funded Technology Project",
both from the Flashlight Evaluation Handbook.
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