Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
May 1, 2006 - April 30, 2008
The Evaluation Center conducted secondary analysis of student achievement data for charter schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Charter School Teacher Attrition in the Great Lakes Region
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
May 1, 2006 - April 30, 2007
The Evaluation Center researched the causes of teacher attrition in charter schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. This research included data mining from state-level charter school evaluations.
Healthier Communities
Principal Investigator: Dr. Liesel Ritchie
March 15, 2006 - September 15, 2006
This project was a needs assessment for the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System in Illinois to determine interest in and possible use of an Interactive Health Education Facility for its Healthier Communities Initiative. The study involved an on-line survey of educators in the region, as well as a household telephone survey targeting homes with children ages 5-17.
Confidendtial Close Call Reporting System
Principal Investigator: Dr. Liesel Ritchie
March 10, 2006 - March 31, 2008
The Evaluation Center subcontracted with New Vectors to assist in its evaluation of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS). This involved evaluation activities focusing on a small number of pilot railroad sites (3 rail yards and 1 passenger rail hub) where C3RS was being implemented. The work Entailed instrument development, ongoing data collection, data analysis activities, and reporting.
Education for the Arts
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Scriven
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. James Sanders
March 1, 2006 - December 31, 2007
Education for the Arts was a Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency program funded by the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation. It was intended to enhance K-12 education throughout Kalamazoo County.
Even Start
Principal Investigator: Dr. Pamela Zeller
December 7, 2005 - December 30, 2006
EvenStart, a family literacy program of Bay-Arenac ISD. The evaluation included formative and summative components, focusing on the program’s impact on the literacy level of involved families.
SERVE
Assist SERVE in its developmental and accountability needs.
Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership
Principal Investigator: Dr. Carl Hanssen
October 1, 2005 - August 31, 2006
The Evaluation Center was engaged to prepare an external evaluation plan for the project. The plan called for Evaluation Center staff to collaborate with MMP’s internal evaluator and to coordinate a series of targeted studies designed to examine specific elements of the MMP’s activities.
Systemic Initiative in Education
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
September 19, 2005 - November 30, 2010
The Evaluation Center is analyzing the Systemic Initiative in Education in cooperation with the Gordon A. Cain Center at Louisiana State University. The evaluation will continue through September 2010, a year after the initiative has been completed. The evaluation includes a comparison of actual student performance and predicted performance based on demographic and background characteristics—an innovative method referred to as residual gain analysis.
Tsunami Hazards
Principal Investigator: Dr. Liesel Ritchie
September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008
This study examined factors that influence the extent to which people prepare for tsunamis and how they respond to different tsunami warnings. Study sites included communities in 8 states and territories (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Hawaii). In each community, residents were asked about their experiences, attitudes, and knowledge with regard to tsunamis. Findings were to be used to inform policy decisions and develop and assess tsunami education and awareness programs.
SERVE-SEIR
Evaluation activities at SERVE and the South East Initiatives Regional Technology in Education Consortium.
Kamehameha Schools’ Literacy Enhancement
Evaluation of Literacy Enhancement Program
Kamehameha Schools’ Hi’ilani Program
Evaluation of Hi’ilani Program.
Kamehameha Schools’ Service Learning Program
Evaluation of Service Learning Program
Kamehameha Schools’ Ho’olako Like Schools
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
May 6, 2005 - February 28, 2007
The Evaluation Center provided technical support and data analysis to Kamehameha Schools for the Ho’olako Like Schools.
Kamehameha Schools’ E Ola Pono
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
April 26, 2005 - February 27, 2006
The Evaluation Center conducted an evaluation of the Kamehameha schools’ E Ola Pono Middle School Health Curriculum Pilot Project. The main goals of this evaluation were planning, instrument development, data collection/analysis from teacher training session on E Ola Pono curriculum, monitoring curriculum implementation, and data collection/analysis of learner outcomes.
Kamehameha Schools’ Aina Ulu Intitiative
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
April 5, 2005 - October 30, 2005
The Evaluation Center proposes to provide technical assistance and program evaluation for Kamehameha Schools’ Anina Ulu Initiative. The two main goals of the proposal were to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the Aina Ulu Initiative, and develop a program monitoring and evaluation system for regular reporting purposes and future program evaluation of the initiative.
Kamehameha Schools’ FADC
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Miron
April 4, 2005 - September 30, 2006
The Evaluation Center worked with the Financial Aid Director and Ho’oulu Data Center Manager, Post-High Counseling staff, and PASE research staff to develop a program monitoring and evaluation system for regular reporting purposes and future program evaluation; evaluate the operation of the Post-High Counseling program together with the Post-High Financial Aid program and their program outcomes; and developed and used the existing database for tracking scholarship recipients, and worked with the department to coordinate data flow and tracking mechanisms for the program with emphasis on keeping things simple, consistent, and user friendly.
Heifer Project International
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Scriven
March 1, 2005 - December 31, 2009
The Center began working with Heifer in 2005 to evaluate some of the countries associated with its international program. Teams made up of 2 individuals would visit each country to evaluate group and community values, behavior, finances, social capital, and group cohesion resulting from HPI’s work. As part of these tasks, teams reviewed and analyzed documents, reports, and other materials related to the projects selected for the impact evaluation. Teams also worked with local staff to design and implement participatory assessments of the specific projects being evaluated. A meta-analysis was conducted of all five rounds of impact evaluation, and a tool kit will be developed for HPI use in the future. The countries which were involved in the evaluations were:
2005: South Central U.S. and Peru
2006: Albania, Nepal, Thailand
2007: Cameroon, China, Kenya, Tanzania
2008: Cambodia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Vietnam
2009: Armenia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)
Food Resources Bank
January 1, 2005 - August 15, 2005
The Evaluation Center provided quality data on the organization’s operations and results. FRB hoped to use the evaluation to assist in developing its strategic plan.
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