Services

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 initiative

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.)

Our mission is to understand and develop the best in people and their  organizations through creativity, innovation,  and service.