CARE – Center for Assessment, Research, and Evaluation
CARE’s mission is to design and conduct evaluations of extramurally and intramurally funded projects for faculty, staff and academic/administrative campus units; procure new extramural funds through grants and contracts; and provide assessment, research, and evaluation services/opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and the surrounding community.
Thus, the goals of CARE are to:
1. Support CSUN investigators in developing research designs and evaluation plans for proposals for external funding.
2. Provide evaluation services for funded grants/contracts (i.e., external evaluation).
3. Provide research implementation and analytic support for campus investigators.
4. Provide assessment services to academic units (e.g., colleges, departments), centers, institutions, and personnel on campus (e.g., scale creation, dissemination, psychometric evaluation).
5. Pursue external grant funds in the areas of assessment, research design, and evaluation.
6. Pursue local, state, and federal contracts related to consulting, assessment, research implementation, and/or evaluation services.
7. Provide professional development for faculty, students, and staff in the areas of assessment and evaluation research.
8. Provide educational and training opportunities for students by participating in CARE research activities.
Meet CAMINO’s CARE Evaluation Team
Dr. Boyns is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University at Northridge. He has over 15 years of experience in the area of evaluation research. His evaluation efforts have been in the areas of education, health and wellbeing, and conflict resolution and violence prevention. He has conducted evaluations for multi-million dollar education programs funded by the United States Department of Education, for statewide evaluations funded by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and for local-level community organizations in the county of Los Angeles. His evaluation efforts have employed both quantitative and qualitative methods, and have included: 1) online and face-to-face questionnaire design and validation; 2) complex sampling techniques and multi-site evaluations; 3) developing, merging, and analyzing large data sets; 4) descriptive and multivariate inferential statistical analysis including logistic regression, discriminate modeling, path analysis, structural equation modeling, and scaling techniques; 5) structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and focus group interviewing; 6) ethnography and field observations; and 7) the analysis of qualitative data using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software. He has conducted needs assessments, outcome and impact evaluations, and program implementation analysis within complex organizations, with multilingual and low income communities, and with youth and their families. He is currently the Research and Evaluation Consultant for the CSUN Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing and is conducting evaluation activities for the Child Development Institute in Canoga Park. He presently teaches courses in the areas of research methods and evaluation research. He is also the current committee chair for the CSUN Standing Advisory Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects.
Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Social Work Department at California State University, Northridge. She has 5 years of experience with evaluation including mixed methods evaluation design and execution for nonprofit agencies. Dr. Brown also has experience conducting needs assessments, program evaluation and analysis (process, impact, and outcome) in community settings. Dr. Brown has presented locally, nationally, and internationally and published journal articles resulting from her evaluation and research studies. In addition, she has taught graduate courses in research design, methods, and evaluation for over 10 years.
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9324 Reseda Blvd. #216
Northridge, CA 91324
Phone (818) 677-8500
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