Evaluation

IHEP conducts evaluations on programs related to access and success opportunities in higher education, including early intervention, college access, and scholarship programs. The organization conducts both formative evaluations aimed at assisting programs in assessing and improving their services and summative evaluations designed to reach conclusions about a program’s ultimate effectiveness. IHEP's evaluation work is tailored to the program being studied and may include document review, site visits, interviews, focus groups, surveys, and/or analysis of existing program data.

Evaluating Your Program

IHEP accepts program evaluation requests from nonprofit organizations and funding partners working in its areas of interest: access and success, accountability, diversity, finance, and global impact. To learn more about IHEP's evaluation services, please contact:

Wendy Erisman, Ph.D.,
Director of Research and Evaluation
werisman@ihep.org

Featured Evaluation Projects

College-Goal Sunday assists students of color, low-income students, and students whose parents did not attend college to complete the forms needed to apply for financial aid. This program, sponsored by Lumina Foundation for Education and managed by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, reaches more than 50,000 people each year at 650 sites in 33 states and the District of Columbia. IHEP’s evaluation, now in its fourth year, has helped College Goal Sunday find ways to better target and serve its audience during a period of rapid program expansion.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsors two maor scholarship initiatives—the Gates Millennium Scholars and the Washington State Achievers. Research and evaluation activities on these two scholarship programs are conducted by a number of organizations and academic researchers. IHEP coordinates much of this work as well as synthesizes the findings into reports and issue briefs aimed at policymakers and the general public.

Related Publication

Expanding Access & Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program

Testimonial

“IHEP’s evaluation work has been instrumental in providing both quantitative and qualitative data results that have contributed to the effectiveness of the College Goal Sunday program. The greatest impact of the evaluation system has been in connecting a survey that produces meaningful data with recommendations that lead to effective program operations.”

—Marcia Weston, Director of College Access Programs, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators