Before data collection begins
- What the design can describe, compare, or credibly attribute to the program.
- The assumptions and risks that could change those conclusions.
- What would need to change before stronger conclusions were possible.
Independent Review
Need someone outside the work to say what it can actually support?
Prova can review an existing evaluation design, analysis, report, or important claim and provide a signed professional judgment of what holds, where the limits are, and what remains uncertain.
The reviewer must remain free to reach an unfavorable conclusion. Your organization remains responsible for what to do with the finding.
Design or existing evidence
What needs an independent review?
Two review types
Choose the kind of independent review
An existing evaluation design
Question, protocol, measures, sample, comparison, analysis plan, and implementation conditions.
Design ReviewAn existing claim or body of evidence
The claim, materials used, source locations, method, other plausible explanations, and limits.
Evidence ReviewCan Prova remain separate from building or substantially improving what it will judge?
Independence
The arrangement must protect the judgment from the interests around it.
The question, standard, materials, conflicts, fee, sharing rules, and signing responsibility are agreed before the review.
How independence is protected
01What is reviewed
The design, claim, conclusion, or set of materials is defined.
02How independence is protected
The question, standard, fee, materials, conflicts, and sharing rules are fixed.
03What Prova concludes
A named Prova professional owns and signs the conclusion.
04What the client decides
The client remains responsible for what to do with the finding.
What Prova will not do
Prova will not help create or substantially revise the work and then present its review as independent.
Prova can still help improve the work, but that help cannot later be presented as an independent review.
What the buyer receives
A signed conclusion that shows the support, limits, and responsible language.
The purpose is not decorative certification. It is a professional judgment another person can inspect.
Sample deliverable anatomy
Illustrative example — not client work
Independent Evidence Review
Claim reviewed: Participants are more likely to remain employed six months after completion.
ConclusionPartially supported
What supports it
- Completion records
- Employer follow-up
- Six-month survey
What limits it
- 42% follow-up rate
- No comparison group
- Different job-market period
What can responsibly be said
Among participants reached at six months, most respondents reported that they remained employed.
What cannot be said
The current evidence does not show that the program caused higher six-month employment.
Signed byNamed Prova professionalIllustrative signature block
What a review can cover
Review the design before evidence is collected, or review the evidence before a claim is used.
Before a claim is used
- What the agreed materials support and what they only suggest.
- Which definitions, populations, periods, comparisons, and alternative explanations matter.
- What additional material could change the conclusion.
AI-assisted review
AI may help search, compare, and trace more of the agreed material.
The reviewer checks the sources behind important findings and owns the signed conclusion.
A practical first step
Start by agreeing on what the review would need to examine.
The first conversation clarifies the question, materials, standard, timing, independence requirements, and whether a bounded review is appropriate.
Discuss a review