Program Evaluations

Assessment of the Interstate Placement of Foster Children Process: Missouri Office of State Courts Administrator

ARC assessed the process for the Interstate Placement of Foster Children to meet the requirements for the basic Court Improvement Program grant for the Office of State Courts Administrator (OSCA). In order to describe current law and practice and to identify barriers to safe and timely placements, OSCA and ARC collaborated on a design that included a variety of research methods.

  • Reviewed legal analysis provided by client and published literature;
  • Conducted a case file review;
  • Interviewed key players involved in the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) process;
  • Designed and administered a web survey to judicial officers;
  • Analyzed survey data;
  • Wrote report identifying practices and procedures, identifying barriers to safe and timely placements, and suggesting reforms to improve interstate placements;
  • Presented findings and recommendations to the Juvenile Court Improvement Program Steering Committee.

District eMINTS Program Evaluations: Fulton 58 School District & New Franklin R-1 School District

For each school district, ARC conducted a two-year evaluation of the impact of the eMINTS (enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies) program on student achievement and technology skills; and on teacher skills in technology use and inquiry-based instructional practices. In addition, the Fulton 58 School District requested information on student growth in global awareness and life goals while the New Franklin R-I School district requested information on parental involvement in their three elementary buildings.

  • Designed evaluation approach, in collaboration with client;
  • Wrote parental consent and youth assent forms;
  • Secured Institutional Review Board approval;
  • Reviewed/edited survey items for some instruments;
  • Developed new survey instruments (global awareness, life goals, and parent surveys);
  • Administered web and paper surveys;
  • Collected data from many sources including standardized test scores at four points in time;
  • Analyzed aggregated data;
  • Wrote annual and final reports;
  • Presented results to each district's eMINTS committee.

Statewide Evaluation of Missouri's 2007-2009 eMINTS/METS Program: eMINTS National Center

ARC is conducting an evaluation of Missouri's 2007-2009 eMINTS/METS Classroom Grant Program to assess the impact of the eMINTS (enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies) program on both student attitudes toward math, technology, and science and student achievement in math and science. Teachers were assessed on their classroom use of technology and inquiry-based teaching techniques.

  • Designed evaluation approach, in collaboration with client;
  • Implemented retrospective pre-test design;
  • Developed teacher and student survey items;
  • Designed and administered four web surveys;
  • Collected and analyzed survey data;
  • Wrote report on survey results;
  • Will collect and analyze MAP data by classroom over time;
  • Will report on MAP results.

Statewide Cooperative EdD Program in Educational Leadership: Faculty in the College of Education, University of Missouri

ARC is evaluating a collaborative program of partner universities through surveys of current students and program alumni on a biennial basis. An additional Ten-Year Comprehensive Report comparing cohorts was delivered in November 2008.

  • Designed evaluation approach, in collaboration with client;
  • Prepared evaluation budget on a biennial basis;
  • Re-designed one survey instrument;
  • Administered and tracked paper surveys;
  • Collected and analyzed data at regular intervals;
  • Conducted qualitative analysis of free-response survey;
  • Conducted quantitative analysis of assessment grid responses;
  • Wrote one to two reports each year.
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