In the past decade, interest in multisite evaluation has grown, but there is still not a substantial literature on the issues involved in conducting evaluations in multiple sites. There are, however, a number of threads that readers may be interested in pursuing. The literature on clinical trials increasingly contains references to conducting multicenter clinical trials. Cluster evaluation is an approach to multisite evaluation that has been developed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for improving the evaluation of certain foundation initiatives.

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The Paleo Exploration Project’s (PEP) Summer Internship Program was part of a multi-dimensional, regional, education outreach program conducted by The University of Montana (authors) and funded by the National Science Foundation. The objective of the program was to provide high school students from underserved, “frontier” communities in north central and eastern Montana, with hands-on work experience in paleontology at a field station or museum setting along Montana’s “Dinosaur Trail” (http://mtdinotrail.org/).

The NSFAYS initiative supports and researches out-of-school-time programs designed to build student interest in STEM fields. The 16 funded programs take a variety of approaches and address a variety of STEM disciplines. In common they all provide students ongoing (one- to two-year) opportunities to deepen their interest in, understanding of, and career awareness with regard to STEM. Each project is conducting its own evaluation and its own set of research studies.