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Institute for Educational Evaluation, Development and Consulting

We provide our clients – who tend to be schools and other educational and care organisations – with ongoing advice and support in implementing development processes. We also evaluate educational institutions (kindergartens through to institutions of higher education), social organisations, school development projects and teaching materials, and write expert reports on specific topics.

In addition to our range of standard products and services (see current offers), we also offer customised evaluations and development projects carefully tailored to individual requirements. Providing schools and other educational and care organisations with individual support and development services is among our main priorities. Our institute and its employees boast wide-ranging expertise on the topics of education and education policy, and are thus optimally qualified to provide ongoing advice and support to clients wishing to implement development processes.

Focal areas and expertise

The employees at the Institute for Educational Evaluation, Development and Consulting boast in-depth educational expertise, deriving from their backgrounds in such areas as pedagogy, social science and evaluation methodology. Depending on the topics and issues to be dealt with, the institute puts together a team from the areas of school development, evaluation, organisational development, consulting and education economics.
Areas of expertise:

  • Developing, conducting and evaluating qualitative interviews
  • Developing, conducting and evaluating quantitative surveys
  • Lesson observation
  • Document analysis
  • Project management
  • Presentations
  • Consulting
  • Writing reports
  • Expertise in the field of education policy
Current offers
External self-evaluation

To complement the internal self-evaluation process, we offer external evaluation services for educational institutions of all types.

Evaluation of remedial education

We supervise the process of adapting local remedial teaching concepts according to the revised version of the canton of St.Gallen’s Compulsory Education Act (Volksschulgesetz) and new special needs teaching concept.

Support for schools’ quality assurance processes

Our products range from standardised surveys through to consultations and workshops tailored to schools’ individual needs.

Individual project evaluation

Successful project management requires the regular evaluation of input, processes and output.

External lesson assessments

We offer neutral assessors able to evaluate individual lessons.

Support in conducting self-evaluations

We offer in-house training measures, evaluation tools, evaluation procedures and consulting services on self-evaluation processes.