One-page reports are a great way to provide a snapshot of a project’s activities and impact to stakeholders such as advisory groups, college administrators, and NSF program officers. Summarizing key evaluation facts in a format that is easily and quickly digestible engages the busy reader and can make your project stand out.

Although traditional, long-form evaluation reports are still an excellent way to distribute evaluation results, one-page reports increase the engagement, understanding, and use of evaluation for both the current grant and leveraging findings with potential follow-up grants.

Presenters:
Emma Perk is co-principal investigator and project manager for EvaluATE, the evaluation support center for the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. 

Lyssa Becho is a Research Associate at Western Michigan University. Her interests lie in improving the way we conduct evaluation through research on evaluation methods and theories, as well as creating useful and understandable evaluation reports through data visualization.

Michael Lesiecki is a practicing external evaluator for a number of grant funded projects.

 
Skill Level:
Mid-Career

Learning Track: 
Evaluation/Collaboration

GPC Competencies:
Methods and strategies that cultivate and maintain relationships between fund-seeking and recipient organizations and funders
Practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers