Evaluation Services
We offer the following evaluation services, free of charge, for agents and specialists as part of any county-based programming:
Evaluation Design
Overall evaluation design including evaluation type, immediate and longer-term client changes and other outcomes to be measured, and data collection strategies.
Survey Design
Assistance with the development of various types of instruments. Includes item and response development, formatting, and pretesting.
Form Scanning & Verification
Creation and testing of scan forms, logging and pre-checks of scan forms, scanning and verification of scan forms, and export of raw data.
Data Processing & Management
Loading and shaping of raw data. Numerous data quality checks. File and record-level manipulations to create new variables, account for skip patterns and branching, etc. We write SPSS or SAS command syntax for efficient, repetitive runs.
Data Analysis
Descriptive, inferential, and non-parametric analysis. Tabulation and results by disaggregated variables.
Data Reporting and Visualization
Custom reports and detailed visualizations via Tableau to present current and historical results.