Research & Evaluation

To help you meet your needs and move towards continuous program improvement and to contribute to the literature on youth development our associates must have the following background and experiences:

ILC Research and Evaluation Associates

• Have youth development or STEM program development and implementation
experience;
• Have an B.S. and or M.S. degree or higher in a STEM discipline or graduate
degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in STEM education, psychology, or anthropology;
• Are Institutional Review Board Certified;
• Complete the ILC inter rater reliability training;
• Know the literature on youth development and out of school time programming;
• Know the literature on high quality STEM engagement

Evaluation Approaches

Performance Based
Retrospective
Outcome Based
Process Based
Participatory Based
Empowerment Evaluation
Utility Evaluation

Research Approaches

Mixed Methods
Quantitative
Qualitative
Case Study
Participatory action research
Ethnography and other anthropologically informed strategies for collecting data

ILC Evaluators

Our evaluators are involved in the development of proposals for funding, collect formative and summative data, write and prepare intermittent reports, and write final summative reports. During the proposal development process, ILC will do the following:

• Make specific recommendations for instruments that have high validity ratings
that can be used to collect specific data;
• Assist the project team with developing a program logic model and an evaluation
logic model.
• Assist the project team with completing their Institutional Review Board
application if necessary.

ILC evaluators have evaluated National Science Foundation (NSF) informal science education programs and undergraduate curricula development programs, NSF community college programs that include a K-12 outreach component, Annenberg Foundation Funded school reform programs, university-based summer learning programs, and youth development programs supported by the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.