Unlock data-driven strategies with our expert research services.
Empowering Organizations with Actionable Insights
Unlock data-driven strategies with our expert research services.
About Modern Metrics Barn
Our Mission
The Modern Metrics Barn designs services specifically for you, avoiding cookie-cutter solutions. At Metrics Barn, we are dedicated to empowering organizations through actionable insights. Our mission is to transform data into knowledge that drives impactful decision-making. The Barn offers external evaluation and research design services, providing the necessary metrics to help you gain valuable insights into your services.
Modern Metrics Barn Services
External Evaluation
As an external evaluator, we deliver actionable insights into your successes and challenges through our robust research design and comprehensive survey services.
Survey Services
Gain actionable insights into your success, as demonstrated by your people and stakeholders. With years of experience in research design and a wide array of survey services, we excel at providing external evaluation through various survey platforms and methodologies.
Research Design Services
Over the years, we've made significant contributions to projects across the country by providing actionable insights and conducting thorough external evaluations. Our team excels in research design, ensuring that we can effectively implement your projects with appropriate and workable methods, including our comprehensive survey services.
Statistics
We possess the essential tools to apply appropriate statistical techniques to your project, ranging from simple central tendencies to multidimensional measures, ultimately leading to actionable insights. Our expertise encompasses external evaluation and robust research design, ensuring we are fully equipped to provide comprehensive survey services.
Visualizations
The best data is not helpful if your people do not understand it. From dashboards to presentations to reports, we can create the illustrations that will transform your results into actionable insights. Our research design and survey services ensure that the data is not only clear but also prepared for external evaluation.
Writing
From your proposal to the final report, we can write documents tailored to your audience, ensuring they provide actionable insights through effective research design and external evaluation, including our comprehensive survey services.
Your Host: Steven J Dick, Ph.D.
Experience is the key
As an external evaluator, we deliver actionable insights into your successes and challenges through our robust research design and comprehensive survey services.
Training and certifications
Dr. Dick earned his Ph.D. in mass media from Michigan State with a minor in econometrics. He received additional training in quasi-experimental design, NAEP data evaluations, and the What Works Clearinghouse.
Higher Education Experience
Over the years, we've made significant contributions to projects across the country by providing actionable insights and conducting thorough external evaluations. Our team excels in research design, ensuring that we can effectively implement your projects with appropriate and workable methods, including our comprehensive survey services.
Publications
Steve Dick has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications.
Early in his career, his groundbreaking research included his first online survey in 1985, teleconferencing, and artificial intelligence in 1988.
In media studies, he published in branding, intellectual property, and other media management issues.
In education research, he published reports on DIBELS, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, Leader in Me, ACEs, and risk/protective factors.
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The best data is not helpful if your people do not understand it. From dashboards to presentations to reports, we can create the illustrations that will transform your results into actionable insights. Our research design and survey services ensure that the data is not only clear but also prepared for external evaluation.