Grants and Contracts Details
Description
The West Virginia Department of Education Office of Special Education (WVDE OSE)
received a State Improvement Grant (SIG) from the U.S. Office of Special Education (OSEP) in the
summer of2004. One of the requirements of the SIG funding was to evaluate the goals and
objectives of the grant. In order to receive evaluation feedback, provide training and technical
assistance on evaluation, and support stakeholders, the WVDE OSE issued a request for quotation
(RFQ #EDD226071) for an evaluation subcontractor for the SIG.
The Interdisciplinary Human Development (IHDI) Evaluation Unit at the University of
Kentucky is responding to this request by proposing to provide ongoing, third party evaluation
support to the WV SIG Management Team and provide timely reporting to all constituents,
including the WVDE OSE and OSEP. At the end of the three-year funding period, IHDI's
evaluation will have measured the growth in professional development for WV educators in the
areas of both reading and mathematics, and the extent to which that professional development
impacted the academic achievement of students.
The SIG will be evaluated on four levels: process-, progress-, outcomes-, and goals-based
evaluation, using both fonnative and summative approaches. The evaluation approach is designed
to ensure continuous infonnation for data-based decision making and ensure accountability.
Throughout the subcontract, the Evaluation Unit staff will: 1) review the major aspects of the
project; 2) track the contextual factors related to the objectives; 3) elaborate further on the
evaluation questions and make any necessary additions or modifications to the proposed questions;
4) specify evaluation methodology including locating or creating instruments to measure objectives
and the goals; 5) collect data and analyze findings; and 6) generate and deliver reports to
stakeholders, and help those stakeholders interpret and use information to modify projects activities
as needed. The evaluation plan will incorporate unobtrusive measures and extant qualitative and
quantitative data to the greatest extent possible.
As part of the proposed evaluation plan, local education agency (LEA) staff and
participating WV Institutes for Higher Education (IHEs) will receive training and technical
assistance (TA) in the areas of data collection, analysis, and evaluation. This training and TA will
build capacity among educators to increase the likelihood that the evaluation activities continue
beyond the funding period. In order to implement the evaluation plan and provide this training and
TA, the IHDI Director of Evaluation will serve as the evaluation Principal Investigator (PI) and
primary evaluator on the project. This staff member will also serve as an ex-officio member of the
SIG Management Team and represent the IHDI Evaluation Unit at all SIG meetings and functions.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 3/1/06 → 2/29/08 |
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