Within Temple’s College of Education and Human Development, the Center for Assessment, Evaluation, and Education Policy Analysis connect faculty with area non-profit organizations to support program evaluation.

Our expertise: Led by Dr. Annemarie Hindman and Dr. Kelly McGinn, affiliated faculty members apply cutting-edge research methods and analytical techniques to real-world issues, with the fundamental goal of translating research into practice and helping urban schools and communities engender positive social change for the children and families they serve. Our expertise includes:

• comprehensive needs assessments in urban communities and organizations
• consultation to determine the best research questions and evaluation design
• expert data collection through interviews, observations, and direct assessments
• analysis of data using both qualitative and quantitative techniques
• capacity-building to help organizations design and carry out their own evaluations
• large-scale secondary data analysis, including policy-relevant studies using regional, national, and international datasets

Our resources: The Center includes a team of trained graduate students who can support both quantitative and qualitative research, as well as work space for these students and their faculty mentors with computers, printers, and other key technology. Secure spaces and computers are dedicated to analysis of privacy-protected data. In addition, the Center includes a suite of software programs, including Office-related programs (e.g., Word, Excel, etc.), as well as statistical programs (SPSS, Mplus), qualitative analysis tools (Nvivo), an observational coding program (Noldus), and a reference manager (Endnote). Finally, all projects managed by the Center receive pre- and post-award budget- and hiring-related support from the College’s Office of Budget and Research Administration, with five full-time administrators to oversee all financial transactions and human resources activities related to each project.