Office of Educational Innovation & Evaluation

Linking the College of Education to partners across the university, schools, and communities through development, research, and technical assistance.

Evaluation Services
OEIE develops, designs, and implements grant and program evaluation by providing the following services:

Working on a Project

  • Designing evaluation plans for grant proposals
  • Utilizing logic models to communicate short-term and long-term goals in evaluation plans
  • Translating an evaluation plan into an implementation plan
  • Designing methods and instruments to measure goals and objectives outlined in proposals
  • Implementing all evaluation components, including instrument design, data collection, analysis, and reporting
  • Monitoring the effectiveness of activities for alignment with goals
  • Providing formative and summative evaluation to stakeholders

Support Services
OEIE also provides other services to support and compliment evaluation, including:

  • Strategic planning
  • Collaborative project development and proposal writing with university faculty, school districts, and other organizations
  • Grant writing seminars and technical assistance to university faculty for proposal preparation, grant development, and project management
  • Group facilitation and consensus building
  • Development of resource databases to link funding sources with proposed projects or programs for sustainability

All evaluation design and implementation plans are consistent with the Program Evaluation Standards established by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.

Please contact Jan Middendorf or Linda Thurston to discuss your project or development needs.


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