what we do

Our Services

External Program Evaluation

Formative evaluation

We provide formative evaluation for all aspects of your program to help you to best achieve your goals:

  • Products
  • educational materials
  • professional development content
  • data collection instruments
  • dissemination efforts
  • Process
  • identify key choice points to consider
  • alternative approaches or strategies
Reports to Funders

We provide formal external evaluator reports:

  • Project oversight
  • report on progress toward goals
  • compare to grant timeline
  • Participant Perspective
  • interview or survey stakeholders
  • analyze data and report findings
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Materials Development

Curriculum Development
  • Develop student learning objectives
  • Address standards
  • Write and test activities
Assessment Development
  • Address student learning objectives
  • Test and improve
  • Collect and evaluate validity and reliability evidence
  • Conduct psychometric analysis
Guidance for Educators
  • Best practices for educative curriculum materials
  • Modeling and narrative examples
  • Written, visual, and in-person professional development

Research and Summative Evaluation

Research Design

We have experience developing and implementing a wide range of study designs:

  • case studies
  • pilot studies
  • efficacy studies
  • summative evaluations
Analysis

We analyze data and provide reports with visual summaries:

  • discourse analysis
  • interrater reliability
  • psychometric analysis
  • descriptive statistics
  • multilevel modeling
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Our teachers as gardeners

Grant and Report Writing

We have published in peer-reviewed journals and written successful grant proposals, both with clients and in our prior employment. We can help to review or contribute to your writing.

  • evaluation plans
  • literature reviews
  • conjecture maps and logic models
  • methodology and study design
  • discussion of data analysis