skip to navigation skip to content
WCER - Wisconsin Center for Education Research Skip Navigation accessibility
 
School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

ABOUT WCER NEWS Events Cover Stories Research News International Research Press WHAT'S THE RESEARCH ON...? PROJECTS All Active Projects All Completed Projects PUBLICATIONS LECTURE SERIES PEOPLE Staff Directory Project Leaders ERG - EVALUATION RESOURCES GROUP RESOURCES Conference Rooms Equipment GRANT SERVICES GRADUATE TRAINING SERVICE UNITS Director's Office Business Office Technical Services Printing & Mail EMPLOYMENT CONTACT INFO MyWCER WORKSPACE LOGIN

   
Home > News > Research News >Producing Evidence-Based Claims

Producing Evidence-Based Claims

June 15, 2009

A new WCER Working Paper analyzes the National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership program’s Learning Network Conference (January 2008). The study observed patterns in how principal investigators and their teams responded to project evaluation requirements. Some investigators faced a dilemma: should their approach be discovery—as for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research projects—or delivery of pre-specified outcomes? Some investigators and project leaders were slow to start the evaluation and were impressed by the complexity of producing sound evaluation findings. More.