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BPC-NCWIT Evaluation WorkshopBoulder, COMay 16, 2007
Evaluation of the BPC Alliance Projects
Daryl E. Chubin
AAAS Capacity Center
www.aaascapacity.org
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AAAS Portfolio Assessment of BPC Alliances:Purpose
• The portfolio assessment will look across the Alliance projects and ask—both in knowledge gained and impact on participants—what does investment in the set yield?
• The portfolio will be constructed from the data collected and reported by the projects.
• AAAS will offer technical assistance to the project evaluators, while framing the respective efforts relative to the overall BPC mission.
• AAAS’s purpose is ultimately to help “tell the story” of BPC.
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Guiding Questions
• How is BPC affecting the capacity of the community to broaden participation from education to workplace?
• What practices seem promising for whom and in what settings?
• How are relationships among partners maturing, being leveraged, and expanding the sphere of influence within the national computing community?
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Constraints
• Seeking short-term outcomes from long-term interventions
• Measuring processes and organizational arrangements as well as readily-quantified outputs (e.g., enrollees, graduates, achievements)
• Admitting what is seemingly not working as well as what is—and describing adjustments
• No AAAS access—yet—to Alliance annual reports
• Special scrutiny of programs by the Administration due to the Academic Competitiveness Council report
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Definition of Success for the Academic Competitiveness Council (2006)To fulfill the requirements of the Deficit Reduction Act, the council
will:• Identify all federal education programs with a STEM focus;
• Identify the target populations served by these programs;
• Identify the stated goals of these programs;
• Identify the extent to which the programs have undergone independent external evaluations based on sound, scientific principles;
• Identify the extent to which the programs have quantitative evidence of achieving stated goals;
• Identify or develop standards for measuring and evaluating these programs, including common measures as appropriate; and
• Recommend administrative or legislative action to efficiently integrate and coordinate federal spending on STEM education programs.
Source: Report of the Academic Competitiveness Council, May 2007
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NSF/BPC Alliance Projects: Strategies
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NSF/BPC Alliance Projects: Populations Targeted
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Suggested Variables for Baseline Data-Collection*
Suggested Variable Illustrative Disaggregations
Study Population gender, ethnicity, disability, education level/cohort, institutional affiliation
Institutional Partners number, sector (e.g., academic, corporate, nonprofit), forms of participation (i.e., division of labor) Origin of Intervention number of pre-existing programs (e.g., enrichment, mentoring, internship), ways of distinguishing BPC
participants from others (recruits, applicants, enrollees, majors, etc.)
Change in Study Population attitudes, enrollment, performance (e.g., class/project grade, GPA, retention, skills/knowledge, aspirations, degree completion)
Change in Strategy added/dropped activity, distribution of time/effort in activity, acquisition of new partner, addition of expertise on project staff
*see BPC Alliance Methods of Evaluation (handout)
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Evaluation of the BPC Alliance Projects
Agenda
10 AM Cohort 1 project presentations of baseline data (5-10 minutes
each)
11 Cohort 2 project overviews of baseline data (5 minutes each)
11:30 Discussion of common needs, challenges, & strategies for
data- collection, analysis, & interpretation