Effective Practices Provided by Project STAR: Aguirre Division, JBS International, Inc.
Focus: Performance Measurement and Evaluation Assistance
- Analyzing quantitative data from program beneficiaries
- Building the capacity of community organizations: possible outcomes
- Choosing and working with an external program evaluator
- Choosing off-the-shelf performance measurement instruments
- Collecting data for performance measurement: general guidelines
- Conducting internal outcome evaluation for program improvement
- Creating a meaningful evaluation report
- Designing a brochure to share evaluation results
- Developing a program evaluation system
- Incorporating evaluation data into newsletter articles
- Planning and conducting a pilot test
- Reporting performance measures: guidelines for strong progress reports
- Training data collectors
- Understanding performance measurement terminology as it relates to AmeriCorps programs
- Understanding performance measurement terminology as it relates to Learn and Serve programs
- Using pre- and post-test methods to measure program outcomes
- Using qualitative data to add value to performance measurement
- Using surveys with scaled response options to yield high-quality data
- Using the PM Builder to develop strong performance measures
Additional effective practices related to performance measurement.
