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Durland Consulting’s educational services focus on five broad areas.
We provide a range of consulting, analytic and professional
development products in each area depending on your needs and
questions.
Program Evaluation
Evaluation of programs, projects, initiatives, models,
etc.
We begin with your model and theories then construct an evaluation
plan aligned to your goals and objectives
We use a variety of methods for both formative and summative
evaluation.
We develop customized reports, such as board presentations, in
addition to report documents
District and School Data Profiles
We use your data to develop profiles for general or specific
questions
Some of the questions clients have are:
-Who are our students, faculty
or community
-Has our student population
changed over time
-What are our student
achievement patterns and trends
-How well are we doing
with our students compared to the state or the nation,
-How well do we communicate what we do and why we do it
-How do we maximize and focus our efforts across multiple
initiatives
Classroom Assessment
Our major products include:
Developing classroom assessments
Professional development on classroom assessment issues such as:
-Aligning classroom assessments to state standards
-Performance assessment
-Using classroom assessment
techniques to drive successful learning
-Understanding and using test reporting for instructional
planning
District and School Improvement Planning
An improvement plan is your blueprint for building a successful
organization, district or school. We help you create and articulate a vision for
achieving successful academic performance for all students built on
appropriate instructional practices.
We help you to honestly and realistically understand and use all the
data and information that you have available to identify your
strengths and weaknesses and then to collect additional data if
needed.
We help you to develop or refine your overall improvement or reform
plans and choose the structures and models that are right for your
students’ needs.
Most importantly, we help you identify and utilize your capacity for
attaining success on four organizational capacity levels:
Your inputs and resources
The planning and instructional strategies you develop and use
Your organizational structures
Your assessment and evaluation strategies
Professional Development on research, evaluation,
and assessment topics
Business Services
Durland Consulting offers a range of studies, evaluations, as well
as expertise consulting sessions to businesses including:
Survey design, development, collection and analysis
Training evaluation – measuring and predicting performance on
multiple levels
Needs assessments
Program review
Feasibility studies
Focus group development, implementation and analysis
Social network analysis research
Market and opinion research
Research for specific purposes (text analysis, interviewing,
literature reviews, question development, etc.)
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