Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officials.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Resource Cost Model

The Resource Cost Model (RCM) is an approach to organizing information on how resources in a social service enterprise are organized for service delivery. The unit of analysis is the service delivery system (e.g., a third grade self-contained classroom, a pull-out program for reading instruction, or a departmentalized class in mathematics), and the components of service delivery are the specific resource inputs (e.g., teacher time, classroom space, computers, and textbooks). A service delivery system is a collection or combination of resources (i.e., inputs) that is specifically organized to provide a certain service to a target population of students or clients.