Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment
Research Services
The Research Unit of NWREL's Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment offers services based on our extensive experience in research and evaluation design, statistical analysis, and the interpretation and presentation of scientific data and findings.
Project Planning and Design
We provide consultation services and workshop/institute-based professional development for those who are designing or implementing educational projects that include a research or evaluation component. This assistance is most helpful during the early planning stages, such as during the writing of a proposal for grant funding, but can be very helpful at any stage in a project.
Below are some examples of topics addressed in planning and design:
- Preparing funding proposals for research projects or for educational projects that include a research or evaluation component
- Clarifying your questions of policy or practice, and framing those questions in ways that can be answered by practical, feasible research methods
- Identifying optional and optimal research designs to answer particular questions, including issues such as overall design, sample size, instrument design, and frameworks and tools for data collection, data management, and data analysis
- Carrying out the details of funded research or evaluation studies
- For funding agencies, designing requests for proposals and managing competitive processes to achieve desired results for research and evaluation funding programs
Analysis, Interpretation, and Presentation
We provide custom consultation or comprehensive services for the analysis and reporting of new and existing data. These services include, but are not limited to:
- Management and analysis of data, including advanced quantitative and qualitative studies
- Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of specific research studies, and extracting the most scientifically defensible and practically useful information from them
- Communicating research findings for audiences of varying levels of technical expertise, using graphic representations, language and presentation styles that are technically accurate as well as engaging and effective
For more information, please contact Michael Coe, Research Unit Director.