Current research and evaluation

National Science Foundation (NSF) Assessment for Learning (AfL) Education Research Scholars. A collaborative project for research and learning to advance the research base and leadership capacity supporting K-12 and higher education classroom student evaluation design, implementation, analysis, and application. More

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada. Expert advisor on the design and analysis of the SSHRC of the government of Canada for its research grants and development initiatives programs.

City of Grand Rapids Our Community's Children. Population sampling designed to generate a profile of Grand Rapids youth and their needs and evaluation of the process used to develop the Grand Rapids Youth Master Plan.

Integrated Health Partners (IHP). Longitudinal randomized experimental field trial designed to assess the effectiveness of a self-managed chronic disease treatment collaborative using latent growth curve analysis to assess improvement in biometric and behavioral outcomes of persons with diabetes.

W. K. Kellog Foundation and Battle Creek Community Foundation. Needs assessment and formative evaluation of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and Battle Creek Community Foundation (BCCF) sponsored Latino Hispanic Community Project (LHCP).

Board of Education of the City of Chicago. Task order to conduct program evaluations on behalf of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago of Chicago’s Public Schools (CPS). CPS is a district of approximately 600 schools (~100 high schools and 500 elementary schools) serving grades PreK–12, employing approximately 27,000 teachers, and serving more than 415,000 students.

Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC). Revalidation of the 20-item self-report PACIC instrument on a sample of 529 type 2 diabetics.

Empirical Review of Theory-Driven Evaluation Practice. Systematic, empirical review of the extent to which the principles of theory-driven evaluation are followed in practice.

Completed research and evaluation

Center for Student Opportunity (CSO). Assessment to determine consumer needs and improve CSO’s College Access & Opportunity Guide, targeted toward first-generation, low-income, minority college-bound students.

Share Our Strengths (SOS) Operation Frontline (OFL). Process evaluation of SOS’ OFL multisite, national nutrition education program intended to measure the current level of program implementation of OFL.

United States Department of Transportation (DOT) Human Factors Coordinating Committee (HFCC). Evaluation of the evaluation track of the 2009 International Conference on Fatigue Management in Transportation Operations: A Framework for Progress, sponsored by the U.S. DOT’s HFCC, to investigate changes in knowledge of, attitudes toward, and behaviors regarding evaluation.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Development and evaluation of the Social-Emotional Learning Scale (SELS) to assess student's social-emotional learning needs on a sample of 633 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.

Hawai'i Department of Education (HIDOE) and Kamehameha Schools (KS). Longitudinal, mixed-method, multi-case study of schools in the state of Hawai’i designed to identify factors impacting the academic performance of Native Hawaiian students.

Heifer Project International (HPI). Evaluation of the impact of HPI programming to achieve and sustain income and food security for families and communities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Honduras, Ghana, and Guatemala.

Harold K. L. Castle Foundation. Analysis and classification of more than 300 public schools in Hawai’i using hierarchical linear modeling to estimate growth of the academic performance of the lowest quartile of students across a five-year period of time with an emphasis on Native Hawaiian students.

Kamehameha Schools (KS). Exploratory multilevel growth models of student achievement in Hawai’i public schools with a particular emphasis on the achievement of Native Hawaiian students.

National Science Foundations (NSF). Doctoral dissertation improvement grant through the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences (DSES), Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) program to investigate the quality of international models used to evaluate government-financed research and distribute federal research monies.

Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS). Three-year, formative and summative evaluation of the KPS Title I Middle School Summer Enrichment Program (MSSEP).

Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS). Evaluation of Title I-funded behavioral services and behavioral service providers in sixteen of Kalamazoo’s public schools.

Hispanic American Council (HAC). Evaluation and evaluation capacity building of HAC's liaison, youth and family, and women’s programs.

Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan (GWI), Kalamazoo County Department of Human Services (DHS), and Housing Resources, Inc. (HRI). Formative and summative evaluation of the Making It Work collaborative program for chronic unemployment and homelessness.

Educational Testing Services (ETS). Evaluation of the ETS World Links Discourse Software pilot project in Burkina Faso, Philippines, India, Senegal, and Uganda.

Helping HAND (Homeless Access New Directions). Formative and summative evaluation of a community homelessness program.

Goodwill Industries of Michiana, Inc. (GWI). Impact assessment of a federally-funded workforce investment initiative (WIA)/welfare-to-work (WTW) vocational training program.

Indiana University (IU) Department of Psychology. Longitudinal, experimental study examining the impact of the events of September 11th, 2001.

Indiana University (IU) Department of Psychology. Study examining antecedents of attitudes toward the poor.

Research and evaluation partners and collaborators

• - Dr. Michael Scriven
• - Dr. John A. Hattie
• - Dr. Daniela C. Schröter
• - Dr. Brooks Applegate
• - P. Cristian Gugiu
• - The Evaluation Center