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Evaluation Examples
Conference Presentations
Because of our experience and expertise in college access and GEAR UP, members of our team have presented at regional and national conferences including GEAR UP conferences, Capacity Building Workshops, Data Research and Evaluation Institutes, National College Attainment Network, the Rural Access College Access Summit, American Educational Research Association, and GEAR UP West on many occasions.
GEAR UP Annual Conference
- 2023, Turning Data into Practice
- 2023, Stop! Collaborate and Listen: Leveraging Collaboration to Elevate Evaluation
- 2022, Data-Centered Student Profile: Personalize Your Interactions with this Tool
- 2022, You’ve Got Postsecondary Data! Now What?
- 2021, How Good is Good Enough? Monitoring GEAR UP Grants Using More than a Checklist
- 2021, To 7th Year and Beyond!
- 2019, What’s in Your Data Collection Toolkit?
- 2018, You Can Get There from Here: An Evaluation Study of Postsecondary Persistence in Rural Maine
- 2017, Do You Think Beyond the Pie Chart?
- 2017, Giving Voice to your GEAR UP Data through Sound Qualitative Methods
GEAR UP West
- 2022, Stop! Collaborate and Listen: Leveraging Collaboration to Elevate Evaluation
- 2017, Do You Think Beyond the Pie Chart?
NCCEP Summer School
- 2020, Using Data to Drive Programming, Monitor Progress, and Reach Targets
Rural College Access Summit
- 2019, The Maine Idea: Helping Rural/First Generation Students to Transition to College and Avoid Summer Melt
American Educational Research Association
- 2023, The Effect of College Readiness Activities on College Enrollment Among Low-Income Hispanic Students: An example of a path model for GEAR UP
Compacity Building Workshop
- 2023, Research Symposium
- 2021, The Foundation: GEAR UP Data, Evaluation, and Federal Reporting
National College Attainment Network
- 2021, Mission Possible: Transforming Rural High School Students into College students
NCCEP National Conference
- 2020, 2019, and 2018, Wicked Persistent: An Evaluation Study of Postsecondary Persistence in Rural Maine
NCCEP Data, Research, and Evaluation Institute
- 2016, Increasing Data Quality for Effective Data Utilit