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The Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Collection

A free 30-page eBook titled, “The Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Collection” can be downloaded from Atlan. The eBook focuses on survey design and administration. The nine chapters in the eBook are intended to help you design a survey that will give you high-quality data.

Evaluation Plan Rubric

EvaluATE recently released an Evaluation Plan Rubric. This rubric was used as part of study EvaluATE was conducting to assess evaluation-related content of its ATE proposals. It lists criteria to consider when assessing evaluation proposals and therefore is a useful resource for those of you involved in selecting an evaluator. However, the rubric is also a helpful reference document when writing evaluation proposals.

Defining and Measuring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

EvaluATE has published its survey findings of 210 ATE evaluators. One subsection of the survey examined how evaluators define and measure equity, diversity and inclusion in their projects. The survey found that more participants indicated that they measured diversity than equity and inclusion. Surveys were the most frequently reported data collection tool used across all constructs. Surveys asked diversity questions related to gender most often, then ethnicity, then race.