Center on Research, Evaluation & Analysis


The mission of the Center on Research, Evaluation & Analysis is to conduct research and evaluations that are rigorous, successful, and provide useful, timely, and accurate results and reports.

About CREA

The CREA Mission

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The mission of the Center on Research, Evaluation & Analysis is to conduct research and evaluations that are rigorous, successful, and provide useful, timely, and accurate results and reports.

We accomplish our mission by:

  • conducting high quality, statistically robust, and cost-effective evaluations and research projects;
  • working both collaboratively and proactively with clients and key stakeholders;
  • providing needs assessments and planning that lead to rigorous client responsive evaluations;
  • producing ethically defensible inquiries and results that contribute to research, decision-making processes, program improvement, and policy formulation; and
  • embracing the ideals of professionalism, responsiveness, thoroughness, accessibility, and data confidentiality.


More about CREA

The Center on Research, Evaluation & Analysis (CREA) consists of a team of evaluators with broad experience and expertise in program and personnel evaluation and research. CREA has a long and solid history of providing quality evaluation and research for rural and urban and public and private agencies across Oregon, the Northwest, and nationally.

Since its inception, CREA has contracted with clients across a broad geographic and professional spectrum providing rigorous, client responsive evaluations and needs assessments generating information and evidence on which to make decisions. Key to this is intensive work with clients to clarify, focus, and finalize what it is they want to know and/or be able to do with findings.

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The CREA team ensures that client needs are well met. Team members work collaboratively and proactively with clients to ensure that research models and reports address each client's unique and specific needs.




Meet the CREA Staff


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The Research Institute : Western Oregon University : 345 N. Monmouth Ave. : Monmouth, OR 97361
Contact Us: 800-438-9376 | info@triwou.org