Portland State University's Center for Student Success provides quality, cost-effective and individualized evaluation services for every school district setting. Center staff and consultants provide experienced and knowledgeable evaluation services for every school district need. The Center will craft the most appropriate and useful evaluation model of:

• Public charter schools
  
• Private alternative schools with public school contracts
  
• In-district academic or other program evaluations.

The Center's evaluation services provide a wide-ranging and sophisticated evaluation model informed by:

• Best practices of accreditation agencies
  
• A set of quality indicators developed by ODE in the
  "Comprehensive School Review: Quality Education Model"
  
• The Oregon Public Charter School Handbook

Features of our model include:

• A three-level review option for alternative and charter school evaluations:
  1. Formative review conducted annually by the external team
     
  2. More in-depth review that is triggered by indicators suggesting that the school or program did not meet performance goals by a specified point in time
     
  3. Contract renewal year evaluation will determine where the Charter school or program is and if they need to qualify for program renewal
• Identification of key student sub-groups for performance analysis
  
• Discrepancy analysis -school supplied data supplemented by on-site observation
  
• Analysis of achievement and progress toward goals
  
• Weighting of quality standards
  
• Use of Oregon's Quality Education Model
  
• Objective, fair review and recommendations