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This webinar, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses high-impact and low cost evaluation for small projects. For this webinar, EvaluATE and Mentor-Connect teamed up to provide guidance on evaluation to current and prospective recipients of...

This webinar, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance, includes highlights of National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Advanced Manufacturing educational resources. These resources are from six ATE Advanced Manufacturing focused centers. "All...

This webinar, published byWestern Michigan University Evaluation Center, explores mistakes made in evaluation plans and how to fix such issues. In the video, Lyssa W. Becho begins with an overview of evaluation and why it is important to include evaluation in a proposal. Next, Becho explores...

This webinar, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance, discusses mining job listing data to help align curriculum with employer needs. The presenter, Mike Lesiecki, discusses his experiences mining for job data. Burning Glass Technologies was used to conduct an analysis on top...

This 4-page resource, published by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, offers job search advice to photonics students. Written by graduates of photonics programs, the resource provides suggestions for new graduates to consider while job searching. Topics discussed include salary,...

This 21-page resource from SRI International explains what instructors need to successfully incorporate professional skills training into their technical courses. The report includes several sections that "define professional skills and their importance to technical careers, [...] describe the...

This webinar recording and slides, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses evaluation tools needed to measure enrollment and retention of women in STEM programs. The webinar covers the following topics: why gathering gender data is critical,...

This presentation and accompanying handouts from the first Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, given by Deborah Boisvert from Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections​ (BATEC), reflects on work with employers to define, teach, and assess 21st century skills of computer...

This 1-page resource, created by Lori Wingate of EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, is intended to assist users in identifying different groups of stakeholders in an evaluation. The worksheet helps identify stakeholders from four aspects of evaluation,...

This resource, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, is a 2-page template that provides assistance in identifying a National Science Foundation (NSF) project's intellectual merit and broader impacts. The template provides a brief explanation of...