Recent Projects
PAER™ conducts program evaluations, needs-assessments, customer and employee satisfaction studies and other outcomes-based research for social service organizations, policy groups, educational institutions, government agencies, and industry.
Below is a brief description of selected studies conducted by PAER™ researchers.
- A study to evaluate the impact of a succession of social service programs on social, emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual health. Data regarding client progress were gathered from program managers via completion of a custom-designed data entry software program.
- A study to evaluate consumer perceptions of eco-branding concepts and the efficacy of a particular eco-branding strategy. Data were gathered via administration of focus group interviews.
- A study to evaluate an Ivy League doctoral program in philosophy. Data were gathered via administration of focus group interviews with pre- and post-candidacy graduate students, faculty interviews, and administration of an online survey.
- A study to assess undergraduates’ experiences, satisfaction with their education, and preparedness for graduate school. Data were gathered via administration of an online survey.
- An evaluation of a domestic violence treatment program administered by a county probation department. Data were extracted from case files and interviews were performed with program staff.
- A concept testing study in which interviews were conducted with Systems Administrators at Fortune 500 companies to identify preferred characteristics of a new server technology.
- A study to assess faculty childcare needs and preferred characteristics of a new childcare facility. Data were gathered via administration of an online survey.
- A review of existing literature to identify optimal funding strategies for HIV-prevention intervention treatment programs for a county health department.
- A study to examine life and career trajectories of Ivy League undergraduate alumni ten years post-graduation. Data were gathered via administration of an online survey.
- A study to identify characteristics of residential treatment programs that are most effective in helping prostituting women leave the sex trade. Data were gathered via a hardcopy survey, extraction of information contained in case files, interviews with prostituting women, and interviews with program managers.
- An evaluation of a program designed to retain minority women in graduate programs in engineering. Data were gathered via administration of an online survey, focus groups, and individual interviews.
- A study to assess attitudinal change in undergraduates who completed psychology of gender courses. Data were gathered via administration of pre- and post-test instruments to assess gender role ideology.
- A series of studies that independently demonstrated the efficacy of implementing a new procedural approach to the national security background investigation. Data were gathered from case files by subject matter experts and entered into an electronic coding program.