[LTER-education] evaluation methodologies

[Amanda Morrison]

I am definitely willing ti chat as well since we could also improve our evaluation at ARC.

Amanda

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> On Oct 29, 2021, at 5:36 AM, Annette Work <abrickley.edu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’d love to talk sometime, Katie! Also suggested for NES at our recent review. It’s a challenge. 
> 
> I think this would be a great committee meeting topic too. 
> 
> Annette 
> 
> Pardon succinctness and typos. Sent from mini keyboard. 
> 
>>> On Oct 28, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Katie Gavenus (Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies) <katieg at akcoastalstudies.org> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have been tasked with taking the lead on improving our (not-so-robust) evaluation plans for education and outreach at the NGA LTER and BLE LTER.  
>> 
>> HELP!   
>> 
>> This is a stretch for my expertise.  And it feels tough to do evaluation well given that we work with small group sizes at the BLE and NGA (other than the virtual materials available through the NGA).  
>> It seems like "pooling" K12 students across a few similar sites for program evaluation purposes might be one way to address this?  Would any of the coastal/marine sites or other Alaska sites be interested in chatting about that?
>> Or does anyone have other suggestions for evaluation methods that really worked/work for their schoolyard ecology programs?  
>> 
>> I'd love any suggestions via e-mail, or we could set up a meeting to chat if people are interested.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Katie
>> Katie Gavenus
>> 
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