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Advancing the GEAR UP Mission College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium

Capacity-Building Workshop 2013. Advancing the GEAR UP Mission College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium A 15-State Collaboration Effort. A Brief Consortium History. The Needs Request from Congress and ED The Nov. 2011 Reports The Fundamental Questions to Answer

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Advancing the GEAR UP Mission College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium

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  1. Capacity-Building Workshop 2013 Advancing the GEAR UP Mission College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium A 15-State Collaboration Effort

  2. A Brief Consortium History • The Needs • Request from Congress and ED • The Nov. 2011 Reports • The Fundamental Questions to Answer • How to tell effective GEAR UP stories? • How to link data to the work we do? • How to advance student academic performance? • The Beginnings and Connections • GEAR UP West • ACT states

  3. The Consortium Goal The purpose of the Consortium is to foster collaboration among its members; demonstrate the impact of GEAR UP across local, state, and national levels of implementation; and build a culture of evidenced-based assessment and decision-making (Consortium Member State Agreement, 2012).

  4. The Consortium Objectives • Assessing the value-added impact on students • Getting students college and career ready • Connecting research to intervention outcomes

  5. Consortium Partners • U.S. Department of Education • 15 GEAR UP state programs • ACT • NCCEP • National Student Clearinghouse

  6. Consortium Deliverables to Date • Common Service Definitions • ACT White Paper • ACT developing a noncognitive assessment to measure engagement. • Infrastructure for how to start cross-collaborate on national evaluation.

  7. Common Service Definitions • How they are being used? • How they can be used in your GEAR UP program? • Benefits of common definitions?

  8. What We Have Learned • Research vs. Evaluation • Evaluating your project using outside data sources • Evaluating different program models • Cohort vs. priority

  9. A Learning Community • How can the work of the Consortium serve as a learning community for all GEAR UP grantees? • What can your project do to advance their cross-grantee evaluation collaboration?

  10. Presenter Information • WeiyaLiang, Director, Washington State GEAR UP and CACG programs at Washington State Achievement Council • TeenaOlszewski, Executive Director, Northern Arizona University/Arizona GEAR UP • ChrissyTillery, Director of Evaluation for the College and Career Readiness EvaluationConsortium, National Council for Community and Education Partnerships

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