Services
Evaluation and assessment services and capacities include:
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In providing services to clients, the ESC adheres to the American Evaluation Association's Guiding Principles for Evaluators and the Program Evaluation Standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. |
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Evaluation
- Design of customized program evaluation for programs and projects to meet a variety of needs
- Implementation of evaluation design with data collection, analysis, and report
- Support for program review and accreditation activities
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Assessment
- Development of instruments to assess changes in learners' skills, attitudes and behaviors
- Development of tools to assess impact of training and staff development
- Design of protocols to assess the opinions, interests, or needs of a particular population
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Data collection
- Mail, telephone, and web-based surveys
- Focus groups
- Personal interviewing
- Field observations
- Review of archival data
- Literature reviews
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Data analysis
- Large and small sample quantitative data analysis
- Qualitative analysis of interview, focus group, or other non-quantitative data
- Analysis of existing data, including information on student progress
- Creation of data displays
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Consulting, Training and Technical Assistance
- Evaluability assessment
- Facilitation of planning for evaluation and assessment
- Help for increasing program's capacity to perform evaluation and assessment
- Assistance with building evaluation into grant proposals
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