BACKGROUND and MISSION

ANALYTICA is a for-profit, minority-owned and operated company founded in 2004 to provide high-quality research analytics to organizations in the social, behavioral, educational, and heath-care sectors. ANALYTICA is certified under U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) guidelines. The founder and President of ANAYTICA is Dr. Herbert M. Turner, III.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Policy Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program, Dr. Turner has over 25 years of quantitative research experience in the private, public, and education sectors. He has collaborated on a number of important research projects with professionals in prominent research organizations in the United States including the American Institutes for Research (AIR), The U.S. Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, The Campbell Collaboration, The Cochrane Collaboration, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), and Mathematica Policy Research. Dr. Turner has published a number of articles on randomized controlled trials (RCT) and on synthesis of studies that used a RCT design, with leading researchers and scholars in the field. He also lectures on research methods, statistical analysis, and systematic reviews at the University of Pennsylvania.

ANALYTICA's primary expertise is the systematic design, implementation, analysis, and reporting of randomized controlled trials (randomized experiments). ANALYTICA's secondary expertise is in the areas of research synthesis (or meta-analysis), survey research, internet mediated research, secondary data analysis, advanced methods for dealing with missing data, and writing technical reports and policy briefs. Through the application of its expertise to a variety of applied research genres, ANALYTICA is committed to the development of evidence-based interventions with the potential to improve the human condition across the globe.

Rigorous but flexible in its approach to finding solutions, ANALYTICA always considers a range of strategies to assist its clients and key stakeholders in maximizing human, financial, and technological resources in solving difficult research or organizational problems. Underlying these strategies is ANALYTICA’s determination to understand and apply cutting-edge methodological approaches to social science and health-care research questions.

Through intelligent, professional, socially responsible, and culturally-attuned delivery of technical research services, ANALYTICA aspires to alter the lens through which solutions to social problems are conceptualized, analyzed, and addressed throughout the United States and the World.