DESIGN

by the Joint Committee on Standards for Education Evaluation and the American Evaluation Association’s Guiding Principles for Evaluators.3

DESIGN Our work is based on the RPP model established during the first year. The intent of the RPP was to create a true partnership to support 4.0 in reaching its goal of shifting the culture of innovation in education, through collaborative and rigorous research. The RPP included: (1) a professional team of evaluators including and led by Drs. Allison Karpyn and Sue Giancola; (2) representatives from the 4.0 Evaluation and Learning and Programs Teams; and (3) other key stakeholders as determined jointly by CRESP and 4.0.

The outcomes of the RPP are twofold: generate knowledge in 4.0’s four key focus areas and increase capacity within 4.0 to continue utilizing the products and strategies developed by the partnership. The framework for the CRESP-4.0 partnership is based on the five dimensions of effective RPPs. See Figure 2 for a description of each dimension.

Dimension Figure 2: Dimensions of Effective RPPs

Description

D1 building trust and establishing partnership relationships

D2 conducting rigorous and relevant research to use in decisionmaking

D3 supporting the practice partner in reaching its goals

D4 producing knowledge for broader impacts

3 Yarbrough, D.B., Shula, L.M., Hopson, R.K., & Caruthers, F.A. (2010).The program evaluation standards: A guide for evaluators and evaluation users (3rd. Ed). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. 13