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The Evaluation Research Group Office (ERGO) consists of a team of evaluators with broad experience and expertise in program and personnel evaluation and research. ERGO has a long and solid history of providing quality evaluation and research for rural and urban and public and private agencies across the state and beyond.


The ERGO team ensures that client needs are well met. Team members work collaboratively and productively with clients to ensure that evaluations are successful, and to ensure that they provide useful, timely, and accurate assistance, reports, and materials.


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Service Areas

  • Program Evaluation
  • Evaluation and Research Design, Methodology, and Analysis
  • Large and Small Scale Survey Studies
  • Focus Groups
  • Using Data to Inform and Improve Practice
  • Applied Research and Development
  • Measures / Instrument Development
  • Grant Writing
  • Report and Presentation Development

What clients say about ERGO...

"[Your] services have been professional and, to our benefit, formative. [We] have collaborated very well to build the structure of practice and assessment together. [You are] professional and accommodating in your approach to us as a client, and adaptable and willing to work within and around the operation of our organization, which has resulted in a relatively non-disruptive assessment process."
-School Administrator and Program Liaison


"We like that you guys aren't stuffy."
-Foundation Program Coordinator


Clients

Local governments & municipalities and their sub-agencies


Not-for-profit organizations


For profit organizations and corporations


ERGO

  • Evaluates or supports the evaluation of local programs and projects.
  • Provides training and technical assistance to help cities, counties, and agencies to conduct evaluations, research, data base development, and analyses.

School districts in Oregon


ERGO

  • Supports the development and use of improvement goals and objectives.
  • Analyzes school, district, and state data for individual school districts.
  • Supports the evaluation of school programs within districts.
  • Provides training and technical assistance to help districts and schools conduct their own evaluations, research, data base development, and analyses.

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Teaching Research Institute (503)838-8391 | or e-mail: triweb@wou.edu

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