Services Offered
CARE provides services for the CSUN community and partners in the three broad and overlapping areas of assessment, research, and evaluation.
Assessment services available through CARE include:
- Test/scale/survey creation
- Survey implementation online and/or with traditional paper-and-pencil
- Structured and semi-structured individual interviews and group interviews (e.g., focus groups)
- Survey sampling, distribution and response collection
Research services available through CARE include:
- Converting program ideas into testable hypotheses
- Experimental, quasi-experimental and qualitative research design and implementation
Evaluation services available through CARE include:
- Internal and external evaluation
- Needs assessments
- Community/Target population outreach
- Program planning assistance
- Progress/process evaluation
- Formative Evaluation
- Summative Evaluation
- Outcome evaluation
- Impact studies
- Cost effectiveness / efficiency evaluation
- Comprehensive evaluation reports
Additional services available through CARE:
- Manuscript/methods writing assistance for grant proposals, summary reports and publications
- Psychometric testing based on both classical and modern (e.g., item response theory [IRT]) test theories
- Data management, cleaning and preparation
- Statistical analyses, including advanced data analytic techniques (e.g., SEM, multilevel models and other multivariate designs)
- Transcription
- Coding qualitative data
- Translation and back-translation