Santa Clara County Teacher Workforce Study
Initiated by former Santa Clara county superintendent Jon Gundry, this evaluation project gathered data and wrote extensive reports on the following: A survey of Santa Clara county Human Resource Directors/Assistant Superintendents on teacher shortages in their districts, best practices in Grow Your Own teacher programs, and surveys of teacher leavers in the county.

GEAR UP Project Evaluations
We have evaluated four GEAR UP projects over the past 14 years. While we are no longer conducting GEAR UP evaluations, we were instrumental in helping the project achieve its goals for the students in southern Monterey County, including the cities of Chualar, Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield and King City, and in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District.

Hispanic Serving Institution Evaluation
CRECE is the external evaluator for UC Santa Cruz’s HSI initiative.  Working with the internal evaluators for Science Education & Mentorship In Latino Lives in Academia (SEMILLA), we provide use a range of non-cognitive and achievement measures to evaluation the progress of this $5.3 million project.

Laney College Peer Tutoring Project
The community college system in California has been given the task of matriculating students into 4 year colleges and universities. This funded project paid for peer tutors in both English and Mathematics classroom. The evaluation revealed that peer tutors played a critical role in student achievement.

Noche de las Estrellas
This project, developed by UCSC professors emeriti Sandra Faber and David Koo, brings high school students (and their parents) from Watsonville and the Salinas Valley to the Lick Observatory for a night of star gazing and learning. Our evaluation demonstrated ways the project could improve. It is now it’s fourth very successful year.