AFS Senior Business Analyst Andrea Kammerer will co-present on a panel on Making Evidence-Based Decisions: Using Data to Advance International Education, together with Genia Valuy, Evaluation and Learning Lead of IIE; Angela Bell, Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Policy Analysis of the University System of Georgia; and Donald L Rubin, emeritus professor in the Departments of Speech Communication and Language and Literacy Education and in the Program in Linguistics at the University of Georgia.
The session participants will learn how to collect and utilize various types of data to help meet their internationalization goals. This workshop will support international education funders and implementers to understand how key data points can help inform decision making around international programming and partnerships. The workshop will cover three main areas of learning from data: effective collection and use of primary data; use of publicly available data; and use of greater organizational data. Participants will leave with practical knowledge and tips on how to collect or where to access the data they need for decision-making and how to utilize data effectively for various purposes.
AFS President & CEO Daniel Obst will speak on a panel about access and equity with Alondra Nelson, President of Social Science Research Counc (SSRC); George Khalaf, Executive Director of Empatico; and Hilary Pennington, EVP at Ford Foundation.