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Depending on the needs of your project or team, we offer:<\/span><\/p>\n

Program and research design and planning: Proposal development, logic modeling, selecting theories and methods appropriate to the context<\/span><\/li>\n
Needs assessment: Identifying the specific educational or support needs in a population or a group of people<\/span><\/li>\n
Formative (process)evaluation: Determining how the program is operating, whether the program being implemented as planned, what is working and what needs improvement<\/span><\/li>\n
Summative (outcome) evaluation: Determining whether a project or program met its goals and objectives (did it make a difference)<\/span><\/li>\n
Communication: Writing internal and external reports, data analysis, creating data visualizations, presenting findings to funders, project staff, stakeholders, and participants<\/span><\/li>\n
Learning assessments: Identifying what do students and\/or teachers know, understand, and do with their knowledge as a result of their educational experiences<\/span><\/li>\n
Technical assistance and capacity building: Professional development sessions for building staff and stakeholder capacity in assessment, research, and\/or evaluation<\/span><\/li>\n
Questionnaire and survey design: Identifying purposes, audiences, questions, and tools, both on- or off-line<\/span><\/li>\n
Focus groups or interviews: Selecting respondents, framing questions, facilitating, and analyzing results<\/span><\/li>\n
Observations: Conducted using objective or participant-observation strategies<\/li>\n
Classroom or site walk-throughs: Observation of set-ups, signage, participant or activity flows<\/span><\/li>\n
Document\/Content analysis: Identifying common or contradictory themes, messages across documents<\/span><\/li>\n
Social Network Analysis: Identifying relationships and communication patterns within and across groups, departments, organizations, or communities<\/span><\/li>\n
Systems Analysis: Modeling or tracking the flow of materials, energy, or information within systems to identify ways that structures impact behavior, including feedback, unexpected consequences, and opportunities for leveraging change<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Guiding Principles<\/b><\/p>\n
We follow the American Evaluation Association (AEA) <\/span>Guiding Principles for Evaluators<\/span><\/i>: Systemic Inquiry, Competence, Integrity\/Honesty, Respect for People, and Responsibilities for General and Public Welfare (2004). We also use the <\/span>Program Evaluation Standards<\/span><\/i> developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (Yarborough, Shulha, Hopson & Caruthers, 2011).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Evaluation Framework<\/b><\/p>\n
Simply put, evaluation determines the merit and worth of a project or program. As the W.K. Kellogg Foundation suggests, evaluation is a learning and management tool that can and should be used from the start of the design of program through determining the program\u2019s impact\u2014its value and worth for the time and money invested (W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2000).<\/span><\/p>\n
The following framework provides a general overview of the process that our evaluators employ. As this model shows, our process typically follows an iterative framework of design-test-revise.<\/span><\/p>\n
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