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Evaluating and Assessing Impact

5. Assessing & Evaluation of Impact – How are the institutions approaching this and how should we as a group be looking at impact

ADVANCE Institution: University of Michigan
Session Title: Evaluating and Assessing Impact
Session Time: Tuesday, 3:30
Session Coordinator: Abby Stewart

Contact Information for Session Coordinator: Abby Stewart
e-mail address: abbystew@umich.edu
phone number:734-763-3271
address University of Michigan, 6525 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045

Panelists (3 or 4):

1. Name: Cathy Trower
Institution: Harvard University Graduate School of Education

Contact Information for Panelist #1

e-mail address: trowerca@gse.harvard.edu
phone number: 617-496-9344
address: Harvard School of Education, 6 Appian Way, 458 Gutman, Cambridge, MA 02138

2. Name: Virginia Valian
Institution: Hunter College, City Unviersity of New York

Contact Information for Panelist #2

e-mail address: psyhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
phone number: 212-772-5463
address: CUNY, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021

3. Name : Abby Stewart
Institution: University of Michigan
Contact Information for Panelist #3: see above

4. Name: Janet Malley
Institution: University of Michigan

Contact Information for Panelist #4

e-mail address: jmalley@umich.edu
phone number 734-764-9537
address _Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 204 S. State St., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Brief description of session:
The expectation of NSF Institutional Transformation ADVANCE grants is that they will "initiate and sustain organizational change" with the goal of advancing women in academic science and engineering careers. This session will focus on the questions first of how to think about assessing the impact of programs with such broad systemic goals, and then of how to actually do it.
Trower's presentation will provide an overview of the meaning of transformation in the context of organizational change; a conceptual framework for assessing change, and some strategies for institutionalizing change (making it stick). Since any evaluation process requires collection, analysis and dissemination of data, she will conclude with the uses (and misuses) of data as well as some key concepts to keep in mind about data management.
Valian will particularly focus on assessment of changes in women faculty themselves. She will ask how to establish a "normative" time course of improvement (e.g., shift in productivity in research or reintegration), and how to measure elusive but important factors such as hope and changes in personal identity.
Stewart and Malley will discuss the kinds of data needed for assessment of the impact of organizational change or institutional transformation, the timeline appropriate to assessing institutional change, and how data collection, analysis and reporting can be used as part of the change process itself.




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