She has served as principal investigator for national evaluations of several important secondary school reform initiatives, most recently an ongoing evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative, which is managed by ConnectEd and supported by the James Irvine Foundation. (sri.com)
NRC panel members were particularly critical of National Evaluation Systems (NES) for refusing «to provide the committee with enough information about its exams to evaluate them.» (fairtest.org)
Programs often lack transparency in terms of the criteria used for evaluation, so consequently several questionable firms are included in awards, and many of the firms conducting national evaluations also provide consulting services to the very companies they are rating. (sciencedaily.com)