Mission Statement
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To conduct evaluation services, consulting, and training in the areas of teaching and learning for the College of Education (COE) and the University of Arizona (UArizona) while contributing to scholarship in program evaluation methods and methodologies. A core focus of CEARE is to offer program evaluation services and scholarship that foreground COE’s and UArizona equity-centered mission in research, teaching, and service to the Arizona community and beyond.
The key goals for CEARE are:
- Build stakeholder awareness of the processes involved in incorporating educational evaluation into a project/program or grant/contract effort.
- Provide stakeholder consultation for best practices in educational evaluation.
- Evaluate programs and interventions intended to have effects on learning, motivation, and teaching diverse populations.
- Promote and support the design of educational assessments capable of providing insights about what and how students learn and how teachers teach.
- Facilitate the equity-centered mission of the COE by conducting educational research and technical evaluation assistance documenting the effectiveness and improvement of teaching, learning, and motivation – particularly for historically marginalized populations.
- Develop the capacity of future educational evaluators.
- Develop clearinghouse services to meet the growing educational evaluation needs of the university moving forward.