We tailor the evaluation to both the needs of your project and size of your budget
SmartStart Evaluators:
- Meet with project leaders to plan out evaluation tasks and timeline
- Develop an evaluation scope of work document
- Assist with Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol completion
- Work with project leaders to develop a logic model as a snapshot of your project
- Collaborate with project leaders to create benchmark/milestone charts to track project progress, when appropriate
- Work with project leaders to track participants and implementation of activities
- Create evaluation surveys, focus group and interview protocols, rubrics, and other data collection tools aligned with the goals of your project
- Conduct online surveys and track completion
- Interview, observe, and conduct focus groups with project participants, community members, and stakeholders.
- Analyze data using specialized quantitative and qualitative software
- Incorporate analysis of institutional quantitative data such as standardized test scores and grade point averages
- Compare results to a comparison group and/or conduct a pre/post evaluation to assess impact
- Develop quarter, annual, and project evaluation deliverables
- Attend project meetings, seminars, institutes, and workshops