The Evaluation & Research Group works with local, state, and national organizations to help their program reach its maximum impact. Our evaluation lab conducts evaluations and offers services to help organizations build evaluation capacity through educational training and technical assistance in evaluation, assessment, strategic planning, and program maintenance.
We have experience in a breadth of research methods and tools, which we use to provide sound, efficient, and useful answers to questions that help clients make data-driven decisions about their programs, polices, projects, and services.
Our team works collaboratively with clients to write grant proposals, designs and implements evaluation methodologies, communicates with project staff, reports evaluation results to the organization’s staff and funding agencies, builds evaluation capacity through training and technical assistance, and advances the theory and practice of evaluation by writing peer-reviewed journal articles and presenting/attending evaluation conferences.
The Evaluation & Research Group is housed within the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University and has offices located in Starkville and Canton.