Program Evaluation

Paraklete Consulting provides program evaluation services for school districts, universities, public agencies, community- and faith-based organizations, foundations, and non-profit organizations that are concerned with structuring effective learning and developmental contexts for children and youth and with promoting healthy families and communities.  

Paraklete Consulting, LLC is a certified minority/women’s business enterprise (Baltimore City M/WBE Certification No. 05-004645). In addition, we specialize in evaluating educational contexts and assessing academic, social, and other outcomes for ethnic minority and disadvantaged children and youth. 

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Program evaluation services are designed to support our client goals for program development, improvement, and outcomes assessment. 

 

Services include:

• Formative (process) evaluation

• Summative (outcome) evaluation

• Focus group design and facilitation

• Survey development

• Logic model development

• Quantitative data analysis

• Qualitative data analysis

• Report writing

• Culturally responsive evaluation practices

 

Furthermore, we are skilled in presenting our research findings and recommendations both orally and in easy-to-understand visual formats to stakeholder groups as diverse as school board officials and concerned citizens at public forums. 

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Paraklete Consulting, LLC’s clients and related projects have included: 

• The Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Early Childhood Development Accreditation Project (a state-wide project involving accreditation and program improvement of early childhood programs)

• The Maryland State Department of Education, EXCELS Program Quality Measurement Project (a state-wide project involving assessment of early childhood and school-age child care programs)

• Baltimore County Public Schools, Evaluation of the Magnet Assistance Program Grant (subcontractor on five-year evaluation of six BCPS schools awarded federal funds to create school-wide magnet programs)

• Baltimore County Public Schools, Evaluation of the English Language Learners Program (system-wide and school-based evaluation for the 3rd largest Maryland school district)

• Baltimore City Public Schools, Evaluation of Master Plan Implementation (multi-year system-wide and school-based evaluation for the 4th largest Maryland school district)

• The Children’s Defense Fund, a national child advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., (a project to develop an evaluation manual to support the national evaluation of CDF Freedom Schools)

• The American Friends Service Committee, Middle Atlantic Region, Help Increase the Peace Network Study (a descriptive study of a national experiential training program)