Company Profile
The Evaluation Center
Company Overview
The Evaluation Center is housed within the School of Education and Human Development but operates as a separate, autonomous, not-for-profit entity with the backing of a major research university. This unique situation allows the Center to operate independently and to provide external evaluation services to clients aligned with our vision and mission both inside and outside of the University. Our clients include nonprofit organizations, school districts, institutions of higher education, and other community organizations.
The Evaluation Center is committed to equity and equity evaluation; we seek to become leaders in this work. Equity Evaluation is an approach that ultimately contributes to the betterment of community or program by examining issues of social justice in every aspect of the program or project being evaluated.
Our Vision: Improved lives and communities through high quality evaluation
Mission Statement: We strive to make evaluation a valued and widely accepted practice by increasing the use and understanding of evaluation. We collaborate with our clients to support evidence-informed programs, practices, and policies in schools, institutions of higher education, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
Guiding Principles:
We value high quality, ethically defensible, culturally responsive evaluation practices.
We strive to understand the context and communities in which we work.
We use rigorous and innovative quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods.
We help clients obtain and use information to make informed decisions about the implementation and effectiveness of their programs and policies.
We make evaluation meaningful and accessible to multiple audiences.
We support the development of evaluation capacity and its use within institutions and organizations.
We provide real world evaluation opportunities for graduate students to apply coursework and gain evaluation expertise.
We advocate for the value and use of evaluation by a wide range of stakeholders.
Our work advances the field of evaluation.