SERVICES

Full Evaluation Plan and Implementation

Comprehensive evaluation from planning to summative impact report.

LK Evaluation Consulting employs the 3P Evaluation Framework, which systematically analyzes the Perspectives, Process, and Product of a project to provide a thorough, evidence-based assessment.

We help you obtain evidence based evaluation information for use in strategic planning and informed decision making.

No two evaluation plans are alike; we work collaboratively with you to tailor a plan to the scope, stage and goals of your project. We have expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods, and implement developmental, formative and summative evaluations with a focus on generating meaningful data.

Developmental Evaluation

Typically used at the start of new projects, aligning assessment with organizational and program goals and strengthening your requests for internal or external funding.

Formative Evaluation

Typically used to demonstrate the impact of your ongoing project, providing decision makers with progress reports and evidence based recommendations.

Summative Evaluation

Typically used near the conclusion of your project to demonstrate the overall impact of your program to all interested stakeholders and potential future funders.

Our data collection and analysis methods include surveys, interviews, focus groups, ethnography, document analysis and the creation of case studies, applying rigorous standards to all of our work. We can generate reports and white papers, collaborate with you on writing reviewed publications, conduct on-site training and make presentations to your organizational leadership.

Operationally, developmental, formative and summative evaluation are integrated into an overall strategic plan that utilizes different processes and meaningful measurement metrics over the lifetime of your project. We keep in close contact with you, believing that transparency and regular communication are vital for the success of any initiative.

Dr. Kaczmarczyk invests time early in a new project to learn its background and context, enabling her to craft a vision of how she can best support the effort. Her deep knowledge of technical and scientific fields of study, combined with experience with various funding processes, enables Dr. Kaczmarczyk to contribute in meaningful ways to proposal preparation. Some things we appreciate most about working with Dr. Kaczmarczyk is her careful planning, sense of organization and clear definition of team roles. She focuses on creating precise roadmaps of desired project goals and outcomes and uses these to build robust evaluation instruments and metrics. Rather than imposing a rigid framework on team processes, Dr. Kaczmarczyk skillfully co-creates evaluation protocols with clients thereby empowering them to develop their own capacity for setting goals and guiding project outcomes.

Anthony Arendt

Research Scientist, University of Washington's eScience Institute

Individual Services

Evaluation Plan and Design

Craft an evaluation plan that helps you measure the success of your science or education project, providing the insights you need to make strategic decisions, demonstrate your program’s impact and make successful funding requests.

Logic Models

Partner with you to develop a logic model: a visual roadmap that helps you clearly connect your program’s activities to its intended outcomes, ensuring you are effectively and efficiently achieving your goals.

Surveys

Surveys provide an efficient way to gather quantitative and qualitative data about your project from a large group or from people who are geographically dispersed. Surveys can provide fully anonymized data and standardization of questions that you ask your stakeholders.

Site Visits and Observations

Site visits and observations provide a direct, firsthand view of behavior, offering authentic insights into how people interact with your project in their natural environment. Site visits provide the opportunity to discover and immediately meet with people that you didn’t previously know were impacted by your project.

Interviews

Individual interviews provide you an in-depth understanding of each team member or stakeholder’s unique perspectives and experiences with your project. Individual interviews are ideal for exploring sensitive issues.

Focus Groups

Focus groups provide you a deeper understanding of the interpersonal dynamics and team relationships that are central to your project’s success. Focus groups are ideal for revealing how people feel about shared concerns and complex topics.

Custom Training

Workshops: Logic Models; Evaluation Plan Development; etc. based on your specific needs.

Group Dynamics

Ideal for industry clients, develop a framework for effective team management.

3P Evaluations

Education | Industry | State and Local Agencies

Evidence-based evaluations from project conception through project completion.

At LK Evaluation Consulting, we believe that Perspective, Process and Products are necessary components in a competitive and impactful evaluation plan. We provide you actionable insights about how well your project is going that you wouldn’t otherwise know about.

PERSPECTIVES

How participants perceive the accomplishments and challenges of the project.