About CEDER
CEDER, a center within the University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education, provides education evaluation and design expertise and services through funded partnerships. Specifically, CEDER supports the evaluation, design, and development of education programs, curricula, and software in collaborations with other units on campus, external university partners, and for K-12 and informal learning settings.
Previous and current partners include U-M faculty, the state of Michigan, community-based non-profits, and federal programs. The CEDER evaluation and design teams are comprised of experts with both research and evaluation experience, in addition to faculty principal investigators and consultants.
At CEDER, we approach every project collaboratively. Before starting any project, we meet with potential clients to uncover their needs. The team then works with clients to develop an initial scope of work. The scope of work then serves as a working document guiding the partnership throughout the process. In addition to developing design and evaluation plans within CEDER, we also connect clients to outside resources and make referrals as needed.
Please complete this form for inquiries regarding design and evaluation services. If you need immediate assistance, please email [email protected].
Our Motivation
Advancing campus and community interests in educating children, youth, and adults
“Those of us in the traditional academy could have a hand in shaping that future, but doing so will require us to relax our obsessive focus on elite students, institutions, and faculty. It will require us to stop regarding ourselves as irreplaceable occupiers of sacred roles, and start regarding ourselves as people who do several jobs society needs done, only one of which is creating new knowledge.” (Clay Shirky, “The End of Higher Education’s Golden Age,” accessed February 13, 2014)
Motivated by this provocative view on higher education’s future and by our own experience of the need on campus and beyond to improve our efforts to educate children, youth, and adults, we are developing the University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education Center for Education Design, Research, and Evaluation (CEDER).
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Campus and Mailing Address
University of Michigan – School of Education
Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research
610 East University Ave, Suite 1033
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Contact Information
(734) 615-5028
[email protected]