JMA Analytics – Capability Profile

 

 Summary

JMA Analytics is both a sophisticated methodology as well as a division of John Mitchell & Associates (JMA), a leading Australian research, evaluation and consulting company specialising in education. The company’s core capabilities are in the following areas:

·         quantitative and qualitative applied research

·         program evaluation and policy analysis

·         building individual capability and organisational capacity for workforce development

·         program evaluation

·         providing advice for organisations on strategic and change management.

 

With seventeen years experience since its founding in 1992, JMA has an enviable track record of providing high quality professional advice and research reports to federal and state governments, national committees, industry bodies, professional associations and large organisations.

Managing Director Dr John Mitchell is one of Australian VET’s most prominent and well respected consultants and researchers, exemplified by his highly popular weekly column ‘Inside VET’ over the last five years in the quality national journal Campus Review.

Several of his recent national publications are at the forefront of analysis of workforce planning and development for education, including Human Capital Enhanced by VET (DEEWR, 2008; lead author, www.reframingthefuture.net), Productivity and Participation Enhanced by VET (DEEWR, 2009, www.reframingthefuture.net) and Advanced VET Practitioners (IBSA, 2009; www.ibsa.org.au/jma).

JMA’s Director, Quantitative Services, John Ward is one of Australia’s leading educational quantitative analysts. John has won national awards for the application of statistical methodology to educational research, including an award from NCVER in 2008, for his ground-breaking work on student satisfaction incorporating Structural Equation Modelling: “Measuring student satisfaction with VET services… and getting it right!” See http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2008.html

John Ward adds powerful quantitative skills to JMA’s already impressive research, evaluation, strategic planning and workforce development capability.

These combined skills of John Mitchell and John Ward have recently been used by such clients as the:

·         Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dec 2008 (statistical modelling of apprentice retention and attrition). See report.

·         Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry July 2009 (statistical modelling of reengaging disengaged apprentices). Report to be rele

·         the Queensland Department of Education and Training (quantitative evaluation of assessment practices amongst VET practitioners, 2009). See report.

 

In 2009 JMA is working with Challenger TAFE in WA on developing an impact model for measuring its impact on clients' workforces. See Challenger Impact Model.

Brief details

 

JMA established

October 1992, J.G.Mitchell & Associates Pty Ltd trading as John Mitchell & Associates

Office location

Pyrmont, Sydney

Managing Director

Dr John Mitchell

·         BA Hons (Adelaide University 1974)

·         Dip Ed (Adelaide University 1975)

·         M Ed Admin (Deakin University 1990)

·         MBA (Charles Sturt University 2000)

·         EdD (Deakin University 2004)

 

Director, Quantitative Services

John Ward, PhD (cand.), Melbourne University, 2008-continuing

·         BA Hons (Latrobe University 1990)

·         Postgrad Dip. Applied Science (RMIT University 2002)

·         Master Assessment and Evaluation (Melbourne University 2007)

 

Specialist capabilities           

Policy analysis and consulting, workforce development strategy-making, research and report preparation, and program evaluation

Contact: Sydney

Dr John Mitchell

PO Box 252 Pyrmont NSW 2009

ph. 0296600255, fax 0296600277

mobile 0417827023 email johnm@jma.com.au

Contact: Melbourne

John Ward

Mobile 0421241342 email john.ward@jma.com.au

Websites

Please see www.jma.com.au and www.ibsa.org.au/jma (for publications for sale).

Please also see www.reframingthefuture.net for 26 other free publications on workforce development issues authored by John Mitchell – on strategic planning, strategy making, change agency, change management, innovation, entrepreneurship, communities of practice, networking, e-learning, e-education and professional practice.

 

Clients

Over the last 17 years, JMA has serviced a vast range of clients, some of whom are cited at http://www.jma.com.au/assignments.htm

Regular clients include:

·         federal and state governments

·         national committees and industry bodies

·         universities, VET/TAFE organisations

·         professional associations and large corporations.

 

2008 and 2009 clients include:

  1. Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET), QLD
  2. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), ACT
  3. Australian Technical College, Central West NSW
  4. Careers Network, NSW
  5. Central West Community College, NSW
  6. Central Coast Community College, NSW
  7. Challenger TAFE, WA
  8. CY O’Connor TAFE, WA
  9. Education.au, SA
  10. Education Centre Gippsland, VIC
  11. GippsTAFE, VIC
  12. Hunter Community College, NSW
  13. Hunter Trainers and Assessors Network, NSW
  14. Inner West NSW Community Colleges, NSW
  15. L H Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, VIC
  16. National Quality Council (NQC)
  17. NSW Board of Vocational Education and Training (BVET)
  18. NSW Department of Education and Training (DET)
  19. QLD Department of Education and Training (DET)
  20. Reframing the Future, SA Dept Further Education Employment and Training (DFEEST)
  21. Skills Tasmania
  22. South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, NSW
  23. TAFE Development Centre, VIC
  24.  TAFE SA North Institute
  25. University of Western Sydney
  26. University of South Australia
  27. Victoria University
  28. Victorian VET Professionals Association (VISTA)
  29. West Coast TAFE, WA
  30. Western College, NSW
  31. Western Sydney Institute TAFE, NSW.

 

For more information please contact

JMA Managing Director Dr John Mitchell, johnm@jma.com.au  ph. 0296600255

JMA Director Quantitative Services John Ward PhD. (cand.), john.ward@jma.com.au ph.0421241342