Sul & Associates International is a professional measurement and evaluation corporation serving clients with culturally responsive practices in support of their educational programs.

We provide measurement expertise and evaluation models that allow our clients to stand confidently behind their work. Sul & Associates International provides technical assistance to:

  • governmental education agencies,
  • colleges and universities,
  • school districts,
  • non-profit, and
  • other community-based educational organizations.

Through the development of culturally responsive processes and systems, Sul & Associates International seeks to assist clients in developing their own self-sustaining expertise.

Mission

Sul & Associates International strives to support best practices through culturally responsive measurement and evaluation models that involve the partnership and development of local stakeholders attuned to the social and environmental needs of their own local community.

Principal

Sul & Associates International is managed by Dr. David Sul who uses a collaboration model to attract specialists to serve on project teams. In this manner, clients are served by a broad representation of talents and experts.

Dr. Sul is an educator, mathematician, statistician, evaluator, and psychometrician. Dr. Sul teaches critical quantitative inquiry in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and research methods, program evaluation, and organizational theory for the Master’s in Public Administration program at Sonoma State University.

Dr. Sul applies Item Response Theory to develop multidimensional measurement scales and specializes in the design and development of culturally responsive and culturally specific evaluation and assessment models. He is a critical Indigenous scholar and practitioner and through his work and research, he seeks to address power dynamics that influence assessment and evaluation practices.

He has worked with school districts, community colleges, and universities for over 20 years as an external and internal evaluator to deliver, assess, monitor and evaluate educational programs. He is a member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), served as the 2021 Chair of the AEA STEM Topical Interest Group (TIG), and is a member of the AEA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group. Dr. Sul is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators, an affiliate of the American Evaluation Association.

Dr. Sul holds a doctorate in Education from the University of San Francisco, a master’s degree in Statistics from Utah State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from California State University at Northridge.