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Education Agency State of Readiness Assessment Tool for Successful Capacity-Building Services
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Matthew Finster; Jackson Miller – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2023
The Region 5 Comprehensive Center (R5CC) developed the Education Agency State of Readiness Assessment Tool to assess the readiness of State education agencies (SEA) to take on capacity-building projects. The indicators are adapted from the NECTAC Technical Assistance Model for Long-Term Systems Change and are based on years of developing and…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Readiness, Capacity Building, Technical Assistance
Using a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective to Illuminate the Concept of Evaluation Capacity Building in a Network
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Grack Nelson, Amy; King, Jean A.; Lawrenz, Frances; Reich, Christine; Bequette, Marjorie; Pattison, Scott; Kunz Kollmann, Elizabeth; Illes, Molly; Cohn, Sarah; Iacovelli, Stephanie; Cardiel, Christopher L. B.; Ostgaard, Gayra; Goss, Juli; Beyer, Marta; Causey, Lauren; Sinkey, Anne; Francisco, Melanie – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
While evaluation capacity building (ECB) may hold promise for fostering evaluation, little is known about how it is operationalized within a network. This article presents initial findings from a National Science Foundation-funded research project (Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations) that used concepts from complex…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Networks, Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach
An Assessment of Key Sustainability Competencies: A Review of Scales and Propositions for Validation
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Annelin, Alice; Boström, Gert-Olof – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and provide propositions about survey assessment tools of the key sustainability competencies (KSCs) of education for sustainability. UNESCO points out how education plays an important role in transforming societies towards a sustainable future and achieving the United Nations' sustainable…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Objectives, Social Change
Researching Evaluation Capacity Building Using a Complex Adaptive System Lens
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Lawrenz, Frances P.; Nelson, Amy Grack; Causey, Lauren; Kollmann, Liz Kunz; King, Jean A.; Cohn, Sarah – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This presentation reports the results from a three year research project examining evaluation capacity building in a complex adaptive system (CAS) and using CAS as a lens for the analysis. The NSF funded Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) project provides new insights on (1) the implications of complexity theory…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Teamwork, Systems Approach, Inquiry
Advancing Evaluation of Character Building Programs
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Urban, Jennifer Brown; Trochim, William M. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This article presents how character development practitioners, researchers, and funders might think about evaluation, how evaluation fits into their work, and what needs to happen in order to sustain evaluative practices. A broader view of evaluation is presented whereby evaluation is not just seen as something that is applied at a program level,…
Descriptors: Personality, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials)