About Us

Since its founding by George Hein and Brenda Engel in 1976, the Program Evaluation and Research Group (PERG) has carried out over 600 program evaluations; sponsored workshops, courses, and other educational activities; and engaged in a range of foundation- and government-sponsored research studies. Principal clients have included states, universities, school districts, museums and aquariums, foundations, and arts organizations implementing projects funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Association for State and Local History.

PERG's staff and associates have expertise in the arts, sciences, and mathematics; child and adult development; organizational development; and museum studies and education. They bring to their work not only skills in assessment and evaluation, but also content knowledge appropriate to the various programs PERG evaluates.