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
- Early Reading First
- School-Based Mentoring
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers
- Teaching American History
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.
