In today’s evidence-driven world, there is increasing demand for researchers with the skills to design, conduct, and evaluate studies that help institutions and schools improve their decision-making ...

The mission of the Center for Program Evaluation (CPE) is to conduct research on program evaluation methods as well as to offer evaluation planning, consulting, training and services for the ...

Focus groups are a fast and effective way to elicit information and perspectives from a variety of key informants simultaneously. In public health, it is often a standard research methodology that is ...

The evaluation science graduate certificates, offered 100% virtually, are intended to prepare students in program evaluation across the fields of human services, education, public policy, health and ...

We work closely with PIs on grant proposals to design evaluation plans, write the evaluation section and develop the evaluation budget. We implement evaluation plans, review evaluation data with PI’s ...

If we want to study an intervention's outcomes, we should understand the degree to which it is being implemented. In this virtual brown bag, research and practice staff from the Center for Thriving ...

To effectively evaluate public relations programs, PR professionals and company management should agree on PR goals. Those who work in PR typically have backgrounds steeped in writing, while ...

Businesses use evaluation practices for a variety of purposes -- measuring the success of a program, a product, a system or even employee performance. Employing external evaluation techniques involves ...

The Northwestern University Program Evaluation Core team members consist of faculty, PhD and Masters level staff with expertise in evaluations focusing on higher education and training. Our team ...