Research & Evaluation
Helping clients learn what works, why it works, and how to improve it.
Introduction
For over 30 years, EDC’s rigorous and responsive studies have produced findings our clients use to make decisions and drive improvement in preK-20 education, healthcare, and workforce development. We generate new insights with lasting impact.
EDC has a unique focus on clients’ goals, needs, and concerns. We specialize in collaborative approaches that engage funders, clients, program staff, and community members to ensure relevant, useful results. We build our clients’ capacity to collect, analyze, and use data to advance their goals after we are gone.
Our experts provide research and evaluation services to federal, state, and local government agencies; foundations; corporations, including start-ups and tech companies; school districts, state departments of education, higher education institutions, and ministries of education; nonprofits, including community-based organizations and cultural institutions; and many others.
A quick look at our services
R&D of innovative products, applied research, basic research, researchers certified in WWC standards and procedures, and more.
Formative evaluation, implementation evaluation, summative and outcome evaluation, impact evaluation, logic modeling, and more.
Randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs, participatory action research, case studies, usability testing, focus groups, exploratory studies, descriptive studies, in-depth interviews, and more.
Survey design and administration, focus groups and in-depth interviews, statistical analysis, content and narrative analyses, predictive analytics, secondary data analysis, and more.
Strategic dissemination plans, reports, briefs, infographics, data dashboards, videos, interactive media, convenings, and more.
Continuous improvement coaching, occupational profiling, monitoring & evaluation, impact-tracking, cost analysis, policy analysis, design of instruments, protocols, and assessments, community mapping, performance and quality measurement, systematic literature and landscape reviews, Corporate Social Responsibility assessments, sector analysis, and more.
Our Projects
Featured Project
Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast & Islands at EDC
EDC partners with educators, district and state education leaders, and researchers across the Northeast & Islands region to improve student outcomes. EDC also supports research for REL Midwest and REL Appalachia.
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