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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.\u00a0 The theme of this year’s conference is Evaluation + Design.<\/p>\n
The conference has 40 workshops and 850 sessions.\u00a0 Here are some example programs:<\/p>\n
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- From crap to oh snap: Using DIY templates to (easily) improve information design across an organization<\/em><\/li>\n
- Developing Evaluation Tools to Measure MOOC Learner Outcomes in Higher Education<\/em><\/li>\n
- Evaluation Design for Innovation\/Pilot Projects<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There’s still time for Early Bird Registration (ends October 3)!<\/p>\n
Oct. 31-November 2, 2016 Library Assessment Conference<\/a>, Arlington VA<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThis 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).\u00a0\u00a0 The theme for this conference is Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment.<\/p>\n
This conference is bookended by workshops like Getting the Message Out: Creating a Multi-Directional Approach to Communicating Assessment<\/em> and Learning Analytics, Academic Libraries, and Institutional Context: Getting Started, Gaining Traction, Going Forward.<\/em><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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This is an exciting time to be in the assessment and evaluation business.\u00a0 Take this amazing opportunity to go to one of these conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s the fall, also known as the beginning of conference season. It’s a very exciting time if you like evaluation\/assessment.\u00a0 If you want to improve your evaluation skills, two great conferences are coming up, back to back.\u00a0 Take a look at some of these highlights and pick one to go to! Oct. 24-29, 2016 Evaluation… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-1fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Developing Evaluation Tools to Measure MOOC Learner Outcomes in Higher Education<\/em><\/li>\n