CREATE Research and Evaluation

CREATE employs full-time, experienced researchers and a growing team of doctoral student researchers.

Our goal is to understand education needs and promising efforts, so that partners can work together methodically to improve education opportunity.

CREATE prides itself on conducting quality and cost effective research and evaluation projects, with a particular focus on supporting the success of students underrepresented in higher education. We do nationally relevant research, research investigating local and regional education issues, and, when funded, independent and rigorous evaluation of educational programs. 

CREATE researchers have extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative research and evaluations, including mixed methods research on professional development, youth development, district-wide reform initiatives, school-based programs and partnerships, and university programs and courses. We draw expertise from the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and cognitive science, in addition to the interdisciplinary world of education research. Our work contributes to improvement research and research-practice partnership models in education. We also do participatory design research partnering with youth and educators as co-researchers.

We have served as researchers and evaluators on grants and funded projects from (e.g.,) the Carnegie Corporation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, IES, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Howard Hughes Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Office of Naval Research, and the California Subject Matter Projects, as well as state agencies and local foundations.

If you'd like to partner in a research grant or in evaluating how your own partnership or outreach effort might have the most impact on student success, email Monica Sweet, Research and Evaluation CoDirector (msweet@ucsd.edu) for an initial consult. 

CREATE prides itself on conducting quality and cost effective research and evaluation projects, with a particular focus on supporting the success of students underrepresented in higher education. We do nationally relevant research, research investigating local and regional education issues, and, when funded, independent and rigorous evaluation of educational programs. We are available for initial consultations about researching and evaluating interventions pursuing supports for students and teachers; some such projects will expand into full grant applications and funded research/evaluation projects. 

Please approach us as early as possible for any grant consultation so we might support you properly in initial project design and evaluation thinking.