Clients and Projects

The following is a selected list of clients and some current and past projects:

Client	Sample Projects
New Zealand Ministry of Education	Literacy exploratory study (2009 – ongoing): Collaboratively developed, with MOE Literacy specialists and literacy leaders from a selection of primary and intermediate schools, a set of user-friendly self-review tools for schools to inquire into how effectively they understand the strengths and needs of their struggling readers and writers and accelerate their progress in literacy; supporting wider roll-out across New Zealand Consultant Advisor on a Group Maori project (2009 – ongoing) to develop a meta-level evaluation framework to guide the commissioning and strategic use of evaluation that generates actionable evidence of Maori learner outcomes to be used as input into investment decisions Collaboratively developed a framework and user-friendly tools for the evaluation of the Specialist Education Itinerant Teacher (SEIT) service with Group Special Education (GSE) and a diverse group of special education specialists; trained core group to use the tools and analyse data; they in turn are currently rolling the evaluation out to other SEIT services (2006-2007). Facilitated a nationwide series of four professional development workshops on “Linking Inputs to Outcomes” for the School Performance and Schooling Improvement groups (2005)
Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry for Maori Development)	Member of strategic, senior management-level Evaluation Advisory Group charged with overseeing the development and implementation of Te Puni Kokiri’s overarching evaluation strategy (2010 – ongoing). Advisor/coach/mentor for TPK’s evaluation team, charged with building evaluation capacity in conducting and commissioning high-value evaluations (2010 – ongoing). Delivered expert lecture and workshop to TPK management and staff on creative methods for answering the value-for-money question when outcomes are intangible (2009)
New Zealand Qualifications Authority	Member of Expert Advisory Group charged with advising NZQA on the design and implementation of a new evaluative approach to quality assurance (2007-2009). Provision of advice and feedback on the development of tools, guidelines and training for external evaluation and review of tertiary education organisations (2008-2009).Workshops on evaluative quality assurance delivered to academic managers of institutes of technology and polytechnics and to internal NZQA staff (2009)
State Services Commission	Conducted an independent formative evaluation for the New Zealand State Services Commission of the Senior Leadership and Management Development (SLMD) strategy, a multifaceted initiative spanning 35 government agencies (2004-2005). Longer-term impact evaluation of SLMD completed, featuring broad-brush mixed-method value-for money analyses incorporating a range of intangible outcomes (2006-2009).
Education Review Office	Conducted a consumer-oriented independent evaluation of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Evaluation (PGDE) supported by ERO and run by Massey (2006)
Ministry of Health	Developed a preliminary impact analysis framework for the Autism Spectrum Disorder Guidelines (joint project with the Ministries of Health and Education) (2006). Delivered a half-day workshop for managers and staff who commission and manage evaluation work
Leadership Development Centre	Conducted an independent evaluation of the LDC’s recalibrated ‘gateway’ (assessment and selection process) for entry into the Public Sector Advanced Leadership Programme (2007)
Kamehameha Schools in Hawai`i	Facilitated workshops on culturally relevant logic modelling, evaluation and monitoring for staff from various units within Kamehameha Schools, who were developing and implementing programmes aimed at Native Hawaiians (2003). Worked with KS’s Extension Education Division to build evaluation capacity by assisting to develop logic models, design culturally-relevant process and outcome instruments and data gathering tools, analyse results, and report them using a ‘mini evaluation snapshot’ template I developed (2003-2004).
AMP Society	Evaluated the effectiveness of a large-scale, multi-faceted organisational change effort involving 21 interventions over an 18-month period (1997).