Evaluation & Assessment
The Alternative Energy Automotive project has developed a comprehensive evaluation and assessment plan in conjunction with the project’s external evaluator The Rucks Group. The evaluation approach includes both formative and summative evaluation. The evaluation is framed by five evaluative questions which reflect both formative evaluation, accountability factors and project implementation; and summative evaluation, the impact or the difference the project is making on students, industry and the overall region.
An overview of the project’s evaluation plan can be found in the following document: Evaluation Plan
Brief Report: Course Feedback Winter Quarter 2019
Brief Report: Instructors Workshop 2018
Brief Report: AFVE Workshop 2018
Interim Evaluation Report 2017
About the Rucks Group
Leading the evaluation in partnership with the PI is Dr. Lana Rucks, Principal Consultant with The Rucks Group. The Rucks Group is a six-person research and evaluation firm that gathers, analyzes, and interprets data to enable our clients to measure the impact of their work. Dr. Rucks holds a doctorate degree in Social Psychology with a concentration in quantitative methods from The Ohio State University (OSU). Dr. Rucks also holds two Master of Arts degrees in Social Psychology and Experimental Psychology from OSU and the University of Dayton, respectively.
The Rucks Group evaluation team has extensive broad experience as an external evaluator, but also deep specific experience within the NSF ATE community. The Rucks Group works with several ATE-funded projects and serves as the evaluator for the Community College of Beaver County (1400503: Systemic Change Through Process Technology); Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (1304726: UPDATE: Utilities Pipeline Development for Advanced Technological Education and 1406857: Welding: Wisconsin’s Ultimate Rural STEM Pathway); and Sinclair Community College (1601038: Building an Academic Pathway for Aerial Sensing Data Analysts and 1600455: Increasing Technician Preparedness in the Built Environment) as well as EvaluATE (1600992), the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) evaluation resource center (Western Michigan University), and ATE Central (1261744) all funded by the Advanced Technology Education program.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1600689.