Our Evaluation Services

The Evaluation Group’s (TEG) staff includes onsite assessment staff, data analysts, and technology specialists and is highly knowledgeable in the following areas:

• Creating and using logic models to plan, implement, and evaluate programs
• Developing quantitatively-based instruments, including surveys, checklists, and observation protocols
• Using qualitative methods, such as key informant interviews and focus groups
• Creating data collection systems and online data collection templates that match our customers performance requirements
• Analyzing quantitative data using statistical methods including univariate,
  bi-variate, and multivariate techniques.
• Tailoring reports to stakeholder needs
• Triangulating information from a variety of qualitative and quantitative data sources to produce results that are credible and based on a convergence evidence

TEG has over 12 years’ experience in evaluating large federal, state, foundation, and corporate grant programs, as well as numerous other education-related grant programs, including:

• Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) – www.ed.gov/programs/slcp
• Early Reading First (ERF) – www.ed.gov/programs/earlyreading
• School-Based Mentoring – www.ed.gov/programs/dvpmentoring
• 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)
  www.ed.gov/programs/21stcclc/contacts.html
• Teaching American History (TAH) – www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory

To ensure valid, timely, and efficient evaluations, TEG makes use of on-line survey technology; web-based data collection, management and analysis programs, optical mark recognition software to scan and score, and report information from hard-copy surveys; and sophisticated software packages for the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.