Services Provided to Programs:

        » Program Planning and Proposal Development.
        » Evaluation of Program Implementation and Support for Improvement.
        » Evaluation of Program Effectiveness and Efficiency.
        » Evaluation of Long Term Program Impact and Cost Effectiveness.

Strategies and Procedures Followed

Program Planning and Proposal Development:

We meet with client personnel to assist in planning strategies and activities to meet goals and objectives of program. We assist in scheduling program activities, determining personnel, needs, and budgeting. And in cooperation with client, we prepare an evaluation plan to evaluate program implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency. We also help in preparing, writing, and submitting a proposal for the program to proper organization for funding.

Evaluation of Program Implementation and Support for Improvement

We focus on Program Goals, Objectives, Strategies and Activities. We involve program participants, program deliverers, and program leadership in evaluation planning. We conduct studies from multiple sources to examine relationships of program strategies to goals and program activities to objectives. Evaluators also observe activities in each component of the program in order to comprehend better how the staff and participants are trying to accomplish goals and objectives

Evaluation of Program Effectiveness and Efficiency

We meet regularly through each year with leadership, with those who deliver the program, and with the participants to obtain their views about the program's value, benefit, and effectiveness and to explore difficulties they may be experiencing. We report regularly in informal meetings, and quarterly with formal written reports of evaluation activities, studies, and findings. We plan and conduct studies of effectiveness in accomplishing goals and strategies and in efficiency of strategies and activities. We also report regularly to leadership about areas that seem to need attention and improvement. These reports are made in informal meetings, in formal written quarterly reports, in an end of year report that list the program's strengths and needs.

Evaluation of Long Term Program Impact and Cost Effectiveness

Where funds are available, we conduct follow-up studies of program impact that consider long-term (3 to 5 years) effects and examine benefits to participants and to society in relation to their costs (to program sponsors, to society, to the participants, and to their families). Such studies, sometimes referred to as Benefit-Cost Analyses, may require study 8-10 years after program initiation, especially when children age 3-6 are targets of program benefits. For example, the first group of 3 year-olds may take six years to complete 3rd grade. Then two to three groups are needed to study realistic impact of a program on a long term basis.

Randall Evaluation members are experienced in program design, implementation, and evaluation. They are a multi-ethnic group and understand the problems of program leaders, staff, and participants from different backgrounds.