QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES
(QEM) NETWORK
QEM/NSF
Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) Project
Workshop
on Assessment and Evaluation for TCUP Principal Investigators and Data Managers
Sofitel Minneapolis ¥ 5601 West 78th Street ¥
Bloomington, MN ¥ 952/835-1900
August 7-8,
2009
Purpose: To
enhance participantsÕ knowledge and understanding of fundamental elements and
best practices of project assessment and evaluation; provide technical
assistance to improve and successfully implement participantsÕ TCUP project
evaluations; and increase participantsÕ awareness of additional data
sources/resources to inform project assessment and evaluation.
Pre-Workshop
Assignment: Participants are to bring a copy of their most recent
annual NSF TCUP project report for use during the workshop.
Friday, August 7
AM
8:30 Continental
Breakfast Garden
Court
Registration Salons
3, 4
9:00 Welcome,
Purpose, and Introductions Salons
3, 4
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
9:15 Project
Assessment and Evaluation: The
Basics
á
Types and Purposes of Project Evaluation and Assessment
Craig
Love, Senior Study Director, Westat, and QEM Consultant
á Linking Evaluation Questions to Project Goals:
How
evaluation/assessment questions reveal
the main intent of
what the project seeks to accomplish
Holly
YoungBear-Tibbetts, Dean, External Relations
College
of Menominee Nation, and QEM Consultant
10:00 Using
Mixed-Methods and Survey Research in Project Evaluation/Assessment
Patricia Campbell, President, Campbell-Kibler
Associates, and
QEM
Consultant
10:45 Break Garden
Court
11:00 Concurrent
Sessions: Discussion of
Project Evaluation Salons
3, 4
and
Assessment Needs
(Participants – See Session Assignment Sheet)
What is the status of your project evaluation? What progress has been made?
. . What
are some of the challenges? How
are these challenges being addressed?
Noon/PM
12:00 Working
Lunch: Informal Discussion and Sharing on the Garden Court
Status
of Each TeamÕs Project Evaluation
(Facilitated by Table Leaders)
1:00 Special
NSF Video:
Salons
3, 4
Weaving
STEM Education and Culture: The Faces, Places,
and
Projects of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
1:45 Group
Discussion: Reports
from Morning Concurrent Sessions
Facilitator:
Monica Mitchell, Associate, QEM Network
2:00 Overview
of Annual NSF Project Reporting Requirements and Template
Gerald (ÒCartyÓ) Monette, Senior Advisor, QEM Network
2:30 Using
Project Evaluation for NSF Reporting and Assessing Project Success
Patricia Campbell, QEM Consultant
á
Collecting Baseline Data
á
Establishing Benchmarks/Success Indicators
á
Monitoring Progress/Tracking Success
á
Crafting Project Highlights and Nuggets
3:15 Break Garden
Court
3:30 A
Model - Roots, Resilience and Reach: Salons
3, 4
Strengthening
the STEM Infrastructure at KapiÕolani
Community
College, University of HawaiÕi
John Rand, Professor and STEM Center Director
Kapiolani
Community College
4:00 Group
Discussion: Institutional Teams Discuss how their Annual Project
Reports
Address Project Evaluation and Assessment
Facilitator: Monica Mitchell, QEM Network
Does the information in your project report address your project
evaluation and assessment questions?
How
will the evaluation questions and types of evaluations identified
earlier help you in strengthening/enhancing your annual NSF reports?
5:00 Break
Garden Court
6:00 Working
Dinner – Reflections on the DayÕs Discussions Bordeaux
Evening
Assignment: Institutional
teams are to prepare a ÒnuggetÓ based on
project outcomes and results that can be
included in the
annual project report and/or documents
for public release.
Saturday, August 8
QEM
TCUP Advisory Committee Members will attend the AM Workshop session.
AM
8:30 Continental
Breakfast Garden
Court
Submission
of Project Nuggets Salons 3, 4
9:00 Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis
Salons 3, 4
Patrick
Weasel Head, Former Director of American Indian
Student
Services, University of Montana, Missoula,
and
Member, QEM TCUP Advisory Committee
9:45 Disseminating
Evaluation Findings/Results
Elizabeth Yellowbird, Research Assistant and Doctoral
Candidate
University
of North Dakota,
and
Member, QEM TCUP Advisory Committee
10:15 Break Garden Court
10:30 Panel: Cultural Relevance and Project
Evaluation, Salons 3, 4
including
the Indigenous Evaluation Framework
Facilitator: Monica Mitchell, QEM Network
Panelists:
Craig Love, QEM Consultant
Elizabeth
Yellowbird, University of North Dakota
Holly
YoungBear-Tibbetts, QEM Consultant
Noon/PM
12:00 Working
Lunch Garden Court
Institutional Teams discuss one of two topics:
(1)
their experiences with Culturally
Relevant Project Evaluation
and Ideas for its Use in their TCUP
Evaluations or
(2)
ways to use SWOT analysis to strengthen their TCUP Evaluations
(Facilitated by Table Leaders)
1:15 Feedback
on ParticipantsÕ Project Nuggets Salons 3, 4
Patricia
Campbell, QEM Consultant
2:00 The
Larger Context: Using National
Data Sets as Relevant Data Sources
J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network
¥
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
National Center for Education
Statistics, U.S. Department of Education
¥
WebCASPAR – Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System
Division of Science Resources
Statistics (SRS), NSF
2:45 Break Garden Court
3:00 Identifying
a Project Evaluator: Understanding the Role of the Salons 3, 4
Project
Evaluator and Maintaining a Good Working Relationship
Craig
Love, QEM Consultant
3:30 Institutional
Teams Reflect on Workshop and Identify their Next Steps
Facilitator: Monica Mitchell, QEM Network
4:15 Talking
Circle
Facilitator:
Holly YoungBear-Tibbetts, QEM Consultant
5:00 Adjournment