OAPA Evaluation Services
The Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (OAPA) offers a range of education-related evaluation services to members of the UMass Amherst community. These services include consultation on evaluation design, evaluation implementation, and data collection and analysis.
OAPA has provided a variety of evaluation services to many funded projects at UMass Amherst (see list below). In some cases our primary contributions were in consulting on the evaluation section of grant proposals, in others we were responsible for collecting and analyzing some data components of the evaluation plan or as a general consultant to implementation, and in others we served as a primary evaluator.
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OAPA provided evaluation services to the following funded projects:
- A Multi-University Evaluation of the Educational Effects of Intergroup Dialogue
Lead institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
UMass Amherst Co-Principal Investigator: Ximena Zuniga, School of Education
Funders: Ford Foundation and W. T. Grant Foundation
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2005 to Present
- ICE IGERT Program
Co-Principal Investigator: Surita Bhatia, Institute for Cellular Engineering
Funder: National Science Foundation
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2009
- Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative
Primary Contact: Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Office of Faculty Development
Funder: W. Mellon Foundation
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2007
- New STEM Faculty Network
Primary Contact: Barbara Z. Pearson, RL&D
Funder: Office of Faculty Development, and Deans of Natural Resources and the Environment, Engineering, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2006
- Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP)
Principal Investigators: Sandy Peterson, Biology; Charlena Seymour, Provost
Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2004 to 2008
- Creating Active Learning Through Technology
Primary Contact: Richard Rogers, Resource Economics
Funder: The Davis Education Foundation
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2004-2006
- Northeast LSAMP
Principal Investigators: John Cunningham, Deputy Provost; Susan Bronstein, Director, Learning Resource Center
Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2001, 2004
- Redesign of Introductory Biology
Primary Contacts: Randy Phillis, Biology; Steve Goodwin, Microbiology
Funder: Pew Foundation
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 2000 to 2003
- The Hewlett General Education Teaching Fellows
Principal Investigator: Center for Teaching
Funder: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 1999 to 2002
- A History of Art for the 21st Century
Principal Investigator: Laetitia LaFollette, Art History
Funder: The Fund to Improve Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE)
OAPA Evaluation Consulting: 1999 to 2001