About Research Analytics Consulting
Research Analytics Consulting, LLC proudly serves organizations throughout the United States.
Our Approach
No matter the scope of your project, we offer a free initial consultation. This will help you to decide if we are able meet your needs and it will help us to decide if we are able to meet your needs. It will also help us to provide you with a cost estimate, which will depend on the scope of your project.
Once you hire us as your consulting company, you will be assigned a consultant who will work with you in a true partnership, knowing that you are the expert in your field. Your consultant will start by learning all that they can about the program you are trying to evaluate or the problem you are trying to solve.
At RAC, you collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of experts in statistics, psychometrics, psychology, and software engineering, all committed to achieving outstanding results.
Our Mission
Our company is dedicated to empowering clients as catalysts for change, aiming to achieve their strategic objectives through participatory applied research and evaluation in social sciences.
Our Diversity and Equity Framework
RAC’s Framework for Equity in Evaluation
As a company, we aim to foster an inclusive, equitable, and diverse approach in all our projects, ensuring that every community we engage with is fairly represented and actively involved in shaping their outcomes. This figure illustrates our company’s Equity Framework for Evaluation. We developed this framework as a tool to ensure we approached each new project with a mindful strategy that highlights and respects the varied experiences, cultural perspectives, and values of the communities we seek to support through our work. Our framework includes five steps.
Inclusive Planning
We are committed to involving a diverse range of voices in the early stages of our projects. This means we actively engage with your communities and your internal and external partners to shape a shared and comprehensive understanding of what diversity means within the context of our work. By facilitating workshops, surveys, and public forums, we aim to gather a wide range of perspectives, ensuring that our definition of diversity is inclusive and representative of all stakeholders.
Diversity in Plans and Goals
Recognizing the unique insights brought by diverse groups, we integrate their input into our planning and goal-setting processes. We understand that local contexts vary greatly, and what works in one area may not be appropriate in another. Therefore, we tailor our strategies to reflect each community’s specific socio-cultural, economic, and environmental realities, ensuring our plans are relevant and effective.
Bias and Sensitivity at Instrument Level
To combat potential biases in our tools and processes, we rigorously examine our instruments to ensure they do not function differently for different groups of respondents. This involves statistically analyzing how different groups respond to assessment items, which helps identify any item that might be unfairly biased against any group. Doing so ensures our instruments are fair and our data is reliable, leading to more equitable outcomes.
Inclusive Data Collection
We are dedicated to inclusivity in our data collection efforts. This means making deliberate efforts to include minority and disadvantaged groups in our surveys, interviews, and other data gathering methods. We will work to overcome barriers that these groups may face in participating in our research, such as language differences, technological access, and trust issues, ensuring that their views and experiences are well represented in our data.
Over 20 Years of Research Analysis Consulting Experience
Help achieve your research analytic goals with our team of experts in measurement and research methodologies! Our consultants work directly with your team to ensure that your research or evaluation project is valid, your analyses are appropriate and make sense, and your results are presented in an understandable and pragmatic format. When you choose Research Analytics Consulting you hire a specialized consultant who will help you and your team design a cost-effective project that will be the most effective at meeting your research and evaluation needs.
