Evaluation Consulting and Capacity Building
With almost 40 years of experience in educational evaluation, RBS is equipped to provide planning assistance, professional development, evaluation audit, and referrals designed to increase clients' evaluation capacity.
- Provide technical assistance and consultation
- Demonstrate effective use of educational technology
- Assist in implementation of federal, state, and local educational grant initiatives
Third-Party Evaluation
RBS has the internal capacity to conduct your third-party evaluation activities independently. These services include:
- Development of surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and other protocols
- Selective use of multiple approaches (surveys, archival data, needs assessment, focus groups, interviews, and observations) to guide evaluation activities
- Development of program logic models
- Design and implementation of evaluation plans linked to goals and objectives
Evaluation Reporting and Dissemination
RBS can generate and disseminate data and reports for use by multiple stakeholder groups. These services include:
- Providing informative reports that allow for data-driven decision-making to improve program impact
- Providing documentation of program achievements
- Presenting findings in a variety of formats (comprehensive or summary written reports, and/or oral presentations for policy makers, school administrators and staff, parents, and/or community groups)
- Professional conference presentations
- Publication in professional journals
Other Evaluation Services
RBS can provide services that meet specific needs in evaluation projects that are being conducted by other organizations. In this way RBS staff can help meet peak-time or special-skill needs. Sample services of this kind include the following:
- Development of on-line and/or paper surveys
- Administering surveys, tests, observations, and other instruments
- Electronic scoring of survey data
- Analysis and interpretation of data
Sample Projects
For more information, contact Dr. Jill Feldman.