Additional duties.

The commissioner may assist state agencies by providing analytical, statistical new text begin , program evaluation using experimental or quasi-experimental design new text end , and organizational development services to state agencies in order to assist the agency to achieve the agency's mission and to operate efficiently and effectively. new text begin For purposes of this section, "experimental design" means a method of evaluating the impact of a service that uses random assignment to assign participants into groups that respectively receive the studied service and those that receive service as usual, so that any difference in outcomes found at the end of the evaluation can be attributed to the studied service; and "quasi-experimental design" means a method of evaluating the impact of a service that uses strategies other than random assignment to establish statistically similar groups that respectively receive the service and those that receive service as usual, so that any difference in outcomes found at the end of the evaluation can be attributed to the studied service. new text end