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Posted by nnlmneo on September 23rd, 2016
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It’s the fall, also known as the beginning of conference season. It’s a very exciting time if you like evaluation/assessment. If you want to improve your evaluation skills, two great conferences are coming up, back to back. Take a look at some of these highlights and pick one to go to!
This is the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, an international organization with over 7000 members, and interest groups that cover topics like Assessment in Higher Education; Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation; and Data Visualization and Reporting. The theme of this year’s conference is Evaluation + Design.
The conference has 40 workshops and 850 sessions. Here are some example programs:
There’s still time for Early Bird Registration (ends October 3)!
This conference only happens every other year and is co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Washington (UW) Libraries (disclosure – the NEO is part of the UW Libraries–something we’re quite proud of). The theme for this conference is Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment.
This conference is bookended by workshops like Getting the Message Out: Creating a Multi-Directional Approach to Communicating Assessment and Learning Analytics, Academic Libraries, and Institutional Context: Getting Started, Gaining Traction, Going Forward.
Scholarly papers and posters with titles like “How Well Do We Collaborate? Using Social Network Analysis (SNA) to Evaluate Engagement in Assessment Program” and “Consulting Detectives: How One Library Deduced the Effectiveness of Its Consultation Area & Services” are organized around a variety of topics, such as Organizational Issues; Ithaka S+R; and Analytics/Value.
This is an exciting time to be in the assessment and evaluation business. Take this amazing opportunity to go to one of these conferences.
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