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Welcome to STEM Evaluations

Advancing STEM Success Through Data-Driven Evaluation

Concise, confident, and centered on your core value: turning data into improvement.

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About Us

Dr. Hackler's research interests focus on student success in STEM

Dr. Hackler's research expertise focuses specifically on student success in STEM, student retention in STEM, self-efficacy, student enrichment, and the integration of innovative classroom pedagogies.

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Dr. Hackler

President & Principal
External Evaluator

Member, American Evaluation Association (AEA)

STEM External Evaluation & Educational Consulting Services, LLC is a professional evaluation and consulting firm that supports education and STEM initiatives through high-quality, evidence-based evaluation services. As a member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), the firm is connected to a leading professional community dedicated to advancing evaluation practice, ethics, and continuous learning.

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Why Choose Us
Her expertise specifically encompasses for K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.
K-12: STEM External Evaluation & Educational Consulting Services, LLC provides rigorous, independent evaluation services that help K–12 districts strengthen program quality, demonstrate compliance, and improve student outcomes. Our team specializes in designing culturally responsive evaluation frameworks aligned to state and federal requirements, including ESSA, Title I–IV, Title III, and STEM innovation grants. Our work supports districts in measuring instructional effectiveness, monitoring fidelity of implementation, assessing equity in access and achievement, and translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations. Whether evaluating STEM pathways, collegeandcareer readiness initiatives, tutoring and intervention programs, or wholeschool improvement efforts, we deliver evidence that drives continuous improvement and supports sustainable student success.
Community Colleges: STEM External Evaluation & Educational Consulting Services, LLC delivers independent, datadriven evaluation services that help community colleges strengthen student success, meet federal and state compliance requirements, and demonstrate the measurable impact of grantfunded initiatives. We specialize in evaluating programs that serve diverse, firstgeneration, adult, and parttime learners—populations central to the community college mission. Our work spans Title III and V (HSI), NSF ATE and SSTEM, workforce development initiatives, guided pathways reforms, developmental education redesign, and STEM transfer partnerships. Community colleges rely on us to provide culturally responsive, equitycentered evaluation that strengthens pathways from enrollment to completion and into highdemand careers.
Universities: STEM External Evaluation & Educational Consulting Services, LLC provides independent, researchgrounded evaluation services that help universities strengthen the design, implementation, and impact of complex STEM, studentsuccess, and researchcapacity initiatives. We partner with institutions across R1, R2, regional, and minorityserving designations to evaluate federally funded programs such as NSF SSTEM, Noyce, IUSE, and ATE; U.S. Department of Education Title III and V initiatives, and largescale interdisciplinary research and education centers. Our evaluation approach integrates rigorous mixedmethods designs, logicmodel alignment, institutional data analytics, faculty and student engagement, and equitycentered inquiry to assess outcomes such as retention, degree completion, research participation, mentoring effectiveness, and STEM workforce preparation. We translate complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations that support continuous improvement, accreditation, and longterm sustainability.
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Amanda Hackler, Ed.D.

Expertise

Evaluation & Consulting: External evaluation and educational consulting services for K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.

Experience: Dr. Hackler possesses extensive experience facilitating external evaluations for both federal and foundation grants. Her expertise specifically encompasses for K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.

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Short Biography​

Dr. Hackler has worked as an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and as an Adjunct Professor at two regional community colleges (San Jacinto College and College of the Mainland). As well, Dr. Hackler has worked within the federal government as a contractor leading various STEM initiatives to promote retention within high-tech degree fields. In addition. she has also served on Michael Jordan's foundation, "Jordan Fundamentals," as a grant reviewer. Dr. Hackler possesses more than 15 years of experience in higher education, as an administrator, and as an educator.

Dr. Hackler: Dr. Hackler holds a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Alabama. She also holds a master's degree in public administration and bachelor's degree in political science from Texas Tech University. Dr. Hackler is a graduate of Harvard University's Management Development Program.

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Advancing
STEM Success

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Grand Writing

Development of evaluation narrative in support of winning proposal submissions

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Consulting

Educational organizations pursuing external funding opportunities

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External Evaluation

For federal, state, local, non-profit, and foundation funding

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Concise, confident, and centered on your core value: turning data into improvement.

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