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NACEP Guidelines for Reporting for Evaluation Standard E2
NACEP Guidelines for Reporting for Evaluation Standard E2
The NACEP evaluation guide (page 9) provides guidelines for reporting your findings including 1) being concise and to the point, 2) addressing the who, what, why, and how, 3) allowing for disaggregation of data by subgroups, 4) utilizing visuals as appropriate, and 5) including descriptions of your institution's attributes, culture, and constraints. NACEP also suggests that your study findings include an abstract, introduction, description of methods, summary of results, and discussion of implications.
Data Reporting and Visualization
Data Reporting and Visualization
Once you have done the work of collecting and analyzing data, it is important to consider how you report data to your audience. Thinking about the story told by your data will help guide your decisions about how you report results to your audience. Thinking about decisions such as visualizing data, the balance of graphics and text, and the length of the report needed to tell your story to the audience will help maximize the impact of your evaluation. Making small changes can make a big difference - below are some resources to help you think about data reporting considerations.
10 Little Ways to Make Your Data Far More Compelling.pdfThis resource provides some tips for helping the audience for your evaluation reports gain the insight through well-designed graphs.
This video offers a high-level overview of Tableau Public, free software that can help you create interactive data visuals with public data related to your program.
10 Design Tips to Create Beautiful Excel Charts and Graphs in 2017.pdfThis resource offers specific, how-to advice for making the most of designing summary graphics in Excel.
Reporting_Statistics.pdfThis resource gives guidance for determining the correct number of decimal places to report in data tables.
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