Council Member Joseph questions DYCD on measuring program outcomes beyond participation
Council Member Rita Joseph asks how DYCD measures whether programs achieve goals in academic outcomes, workforce readiness, and civic engagement. Asherall describes site visits, comprehensive monitoring tools, rubrics, and attendance-based reports.
Thank you, Chair.
Good afternoon.
Beyond participation countdown, how do DYCD measure whether Beacon and Cornerstone program are achieving their goals, improving academic outcomes, workforce readiness, civic engagement, and community well-being?
Thank you for the question.
You're welcome.
We, let's give me a moment.
What metric do you have in place?
Just give me a moment.
I just want to make sure that I have the right information for you.
So currently what we do is, so we have a team of folks on the ground that conduct site visits.
And so we have a comprehensive monitoring tool that allows us to determine program quality, outcomes, and outputs.
We also look at administrative practices, and I'm missing one more, I'm sure.
But we go out there.
We have a rubrics.
We have indicators, specific indicators attached to that comprehensive evaluation tool to determine.
Outcomes and to determine progress.
We also have our system where the providers enter their attendance and we are able to generate reports on, you know, rate of participation and overall engagement in programming.