Research & Evaluation

For quality research, timely results, and objective, actionable findings that help you address your most pressing education needs, start with McREL. Using approaches and methodologies that work for your context, your budget, and your schedule, our researchers and evaluators conduct scientifically based research on education programs, products, and policies and provide you with results you can use to guide mid-course corrections.

Our clients include federal, state, and local education agencies, foundations, nonprofit and community organizations, education publishers, program developers, and corporations.

No matter how big or small, bring us your research question. We’ll help you find the answer.

Curriculum

Is your school or district’s curriculum aligned with your standards? Your assessments? A McREL curriculum review and analysis can help your school, district, or state answer these questions and more.

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Instruction

Are your instructional practices and strategies helping all students achieve to high levels? An instructional audit by McREL can help you find out.

Want to know how to use formative assessment data to guide instruction? We know that high-quality assessment is complex, so McREL offers evaluation and planning services to help your district or school understand the benefits and uses of formative assessment data. 

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Student Supports

Preschool and out-of-school-time programs are an opportunity to prepare and support the whole child beyond the traditional school day. McREL's professional services help make sure these programs are preparing students for what's to come—in coming years, or simply in class the next day.

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District Systems

What’s working in your district? What’s not? McREL helps your district analyze its current reform programs and identify opportunities for improvement.

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School Performance

Changing one part of a school system can have complex and unforeseen effects in other parts of the system. At McREL, our research and evaluation staff can help you take a “balcony view” of your school improvement initiatives to determine what’s working, what’s not, and what to do next.

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