What it is
Students complete these to help evaluate our programs.
What are surveys?
This was the first of our in-class curriculum programs to undergo extensive evaluation.
What is VPP?
Once we have IRB approval, this is the first person at the school from whom we need a signed permission form.
Who is the principal?
This person is overseeing the TLP in-house evaluation process.
Who is Lucille?
We ensure this factor to protect all participating students.
What is anonymity.
Effective programs show measurable change. To measure that change in TLP programs we administer these two surveys.
What are pre-survey and post-survey?
These are the three types of people who need to sign permission forms in order for the evaluation process to begin.
Who are principals, parents or guardians, and students?
This is the most effective timing and way to distribute evaluation participation permission forms.
What is in the club enrollment packet?
Any or all of these people are responsible for letting Lucille know about the decision to implement a specific curriculum.
Who are the CSD, and/or the PM, and/or the FS?
This is what we do to ensure that no personal student data is collected during the evaluation process.
What is create survey code numbers?
This is who gives or denies IRB approval to evaluate our local programs.
What is the NYCDOE?
These are the programs that TLP is evaluating during the 2018-2019 school year.
What are HERstory and Boys 2 MENtors?
These are the 2nd and 3rd people, in order, from whom we need signed permission forms before starting the evaluation process.
Who are the parent or guardian and the student?
Effective and timely evaluation of TLP curriculum and programs is vital for the success of this company-wide effort.
What is Expansion?
This is how we ensure that the pre-survey matches the post-survey for the same student.
What is match survey code numbers?
This is what IRB stands for.
What is Institutional Review Board?
This is the program for which we hope to get an IRB giving us the go-ahead to evaluate during the 2019-2020 school year.
What is Empowering Upstanders?
This is when Lucille needs to know that your school has a club/class of a TLP program we are currently evaluating.
What is the same day the club is chosen! ?
(when in doubt, ask!)
These people provide the data we analyze to evaluate the programs.
Who are the students?
This ideal number of surveys needed for a reliable evaluation sample size can encompass multiple club instances.
What is 30?
Name 2 of the national Promising Program lists that VPP is on as a result of our evaluation outcome data.
What are OJJDP, SAMHSA NREPP, Youth.gov, CrimeSolutions.gov (NIJ)?
This is a person we don't need permission from to start the evaluation process.
Who is the classroom teacher?
This is when in the life of a club or class we administer pre-surveys and post-surveys.
What is the first day and the last day?
This person is responsible for obtaining an IRB for each program we want to evaluate and for the analysis of the responses.
Who is Amanda Thompkins?
"We are not evaluating anything about your school or your students or your staff. Your students are evaluating our program and helping us to understand what is working well and what improvements are needed."
What do you tell principals, teachers and students to reassure them that the evaluation process assesses our programs, not their performance?