AUTHENTIC & MEANINGFUL EVALUATION
WE CONDUCT RESEARCH TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE PROGRAMS, MATERIALS, AND MESSAGING THAT PROMOTE LEARNING, HEALTH AND SOCIAL IMPACT.
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Project PA’s Team Nutrition Training Grant: Improving Culinary Skills & Confidence
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CDC Foundation: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth-Serving Organizations
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NYC Dept. of Education, Office of Community Schools
WHERE WE'VE BEEN
Our team has led research in 300+ schools and communities across the country.
Our Work
Our rigorous, mixed-methods approach to research answers key questions for our federal, state, and private clients.
LATEST NEWS
ACR awarded contract to evaluate The Olga Lengyel Institute’s (TOLI) Leadership Seminar for leaders in Holocaust education.
ACR contracted by the One8 Foundation to evaluate the impact of student museum trips on learning learning.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents ACR’s report demonstrating the impact of their education resources to congress. The full report will be available for the public soon:
O’Shea, G., Backus, B, Friedman Rubin, J., & Wimpy, C. (2024), An Evaluation of Educational Resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Report submitted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
ACR contracted to conduct interviews with high school students and teachers about their experience attending the traveling exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away in Boston.
ACR contracted to conduct exploratory research to understand how teachers in New York City, Westchester, and Long Island approach the teaching of prejudice, anti-hate, and antisemitism for the UJA.
ACR’s presentation about best practices in culinary training is accepted for the 2024 School Nutrition Association Conference.
ACR, in partnership with WonderWhy Consulting, is awarded contract to develop a logic model for the Farmers Market Legal Toolkit and assess its usability, relevance, and impact for BIPOC market managers.
ACR is awarded GSA contract to conduct the USDA School Food Preparation Study, a case study with 36 school food authorities across the country to learn more about fresh food preparation in school meals.
Applied Curiosity Research awarded contract by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to develop and execute a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) plan for their Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership programs.
ACR presents findings from our evaluation of Pennsylvania’s Culinary Training Program at the 2023 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Conference.
Hats & Ladders (H&L) is awarded a National Institute of Health small business innovation research (SBIR) grant with ACR as the evaluation partner. The grant will strengthen opportunities for under-represented youth to pursue health workforce careers and improve heir overall health literacy.
ACR awarded contract to evaluate Holocaust education resources with teachers across the country for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
ACR, as a subcontractor to Sage Communications, wins contract with USDA’s Food & Nutrition Service to create training materials and classrooms resources to promote Family Style Dining in Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) sites.
ACR wins contract to conduct a user experience study for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to inform the rollout and communication around their new reserveohio website.
ACR contracts with itrek to conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of their immersive Israel trip with business, policy, and law school students across 50+ universities. This is the 4th year ACR will evaluate the impact and reach of itrek.
ACR wins contract to develop a logic model and evaluation plan for the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School to assess the extent to which their resources are meeting their goal of building a more sustainable, just, and equitable food system.
ACR is awarded a contract to evaluate training resources from the National Agricultural Library to improve animal care in scientific research, sponsored by the Animal Welfare Information Center.