Dropout Prevention EDSTAR, Inc.. © 2009 EDSTAR, Inc. Answer Key = Website .

Dropout Prevention

EDSTAR, Inc.

© 2009 EDSTAR, Inc.

Answer Key = Website

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SMART Outcomes

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•PP presentation on SMART Outcomes

•Sample SMART Outcomes for Academics and Behaviors

•Handout

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SMART Outcomes

Important Language

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound

Below grade

Failing core coursesSuspensions

Excessive absences

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SMART Outcomes

BIG CHANGE in Language

• Previously generalized to subgroup data

Low-income

Lived with single parent

Minority

How many days a week served

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Classifies students as “at-risk” (or not), based on many factors that may include assumptions about demographic groups.

At-risk Model

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She gets free lunch and is

in a high-poverty school

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She is Level IV and

Academically Gifted


SMART Outcome

• By August 30, 2011, 85% of participants who needed additional credits to be promoted to the next year in high school will have earned those credits.


Algebra 1 pass rates of students served

By_____ the end of spring semester, 2011

Percent or Number___ 85%

Students Who___ had either taken and failed Algebra 1 or had not yet taken it

What outcome do you want?__ Will pass Algebra 1


Improved competencies and social skills

By_____ end of spring semester, 2011

Percent or Number___ 100%

Students Who___ Attended all of the Conflict

Resolution classes

What outcome do you want?_ An improved score

on the survey regarding social skills and competencies for resolving conflict.


SMART Outcomes …remember the Answer Key…

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•Walked through 2 examples in this PP

•Sample SMART Outcomes for Academics and Behaviors on website

•They are also on the Handout


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Logic Models

• Explanation of a Logic Model (PP)

• Blank Logic Model

• 4 Samples


The Question your Logic Model answers…How are the students you served different as a result of the interventions?


Why is it so complicated?


Program Description

• In School Year 2009-2010, 50 youth will be served in the grant-funded program. The After-School program is a tutoring and mentoring program designed to help students pass 9th Grade Algebra. The program will serve high school students who scored Level I or II on their 8th grade EOG Math test, and have either not yet taken or have taken and failed Algebra 1.


Inputs

• Grant funds

• School and grant-funded program personnel

• Staff and volunteer screening

• Training materials/programs

• EOG math scores

• Algebra course grades

• Collaborative agreements


Activities

• Planning

• Monitoring

• Training

• Contracting

• Service delivery

• Reporting


Outputs

• Number of youth served

• Demographics of youth served

• Schools attended by program participants

• Number of family events


Outcomes

• Algebra I pass rates for students served

• Improved competencies

• Course grades

• End-of-Course test scores


Planned Activities

• Recruit staff then screen and train them

• Identify participants using 8th grade math EOGs and Algebra 1 grades

• Recruit identified participants

• Deliver research-based interventions designed to promote the math skills needed for Algebra 1

• Conduct family and student activities designed to promote social competencies and improve attitudes toward school.


Effects of Planned Activities

• Number of 9th grade repeaters reduced

• Algebra 1 pass rate increases


Logic Models …remember the Answer Key…


•Walked through 1 example in this PP

•Explanation of a Logic Model (PP)

•Blank Logic Model

•4 Samples


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Evaluation Plan

• Presentation on Evaluation Design

• Sample Evaluation Design

Process EvaluationRecord

– Family events, Professional development events, descriptions, and number of attendees

served

– Students served with prevention services

– Targeted students served with intervention services

– Demographic information about students served

• Describe implementation

– Number of events

– Number of participants

– Number of teachers trained

– Description of students served

– Description of prevention activities and number of attendee

Explain Data Collection• Outputs

– Logs of events

– Sign-in sheets documenting who participates

– Demographic information about students

– Etc.

• Outcomes

– EVAAS

– NC WISE

– Report Cards

– Suspension data


What if I decide to just use the traditional definition of at risk, then find out in the end

that…


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Find the right Data

• 2009 Four-Year Cohort Graduation Rates by School

• 2009 Four-Year Cohort Graduation Rates by LEA

• NC School Performance Data

• NC School Crime Data Reports, Suspension and Expulsion Reports

• NC Dept of Public Instruction Reports on: Longitudinal Dropout Data, AYP Reports, Title 1 Data,Turn-Around School Reports

• NC Teen Pregnancy Rates

• NC Children in Poverty Statistics


2007-2008 Grade 9-12 Dropouts by Race/Ethnicity


Additional Support

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/dropout/grants/reports/

• 3 Year Cohort Report(Promising Programs Identified)

• Interim Evaluation Report of 2008 Grants Progress

• Final Evaluation Report of 2007 Grant Programs (Individual Budget Information)

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/dropout/grants/reports/


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