The Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) addresses pressing evaluation and assessment needs by drawing on resources throughout the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education and the evaluation community at large. Through interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration, affiliates of CEAC work together to merge technical, evaluative, research design, statistical, and theoretical expertise to best address practical evaluation and assessment issues.

CEAC is one of a number of field-based initiatives within the School Leadership Program, in the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, at the School of Education, University of Pittsburgh.

Areas of interest and expertise
CEAC projects currently focus on the following areas of interest:

• evaluation of Pre K - 16+ educational programs and services,
• evaluation and assessment of not-for-profit and social service organizations that provide formal and informal educational experiences,
• classroom to large-scale assessment systems and analyses, and
• specialized content area concerns in science, math, and literacy.

Additionally, affiliates work with a variety of concerns, including:

• child development and community context and involvement,
• building student success in school,
• teacher education,
• international development,
• higher education, and
• school leadership.

Project work occurs in a variety of environments, both domestic and international.

CEAC follows the Guiding Principles of the American Evaluation Association and the Program Evaluation Standards set by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.
Every CEAC evaluator has completed training with the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board and has applied for and received Act 33/34 clearance.