Type 2
Issue No. 27
Fall 2009

New NNPS Evaluation Services for Districts and States

Every year, NNPS members report that it is important to evaluate the quality of their partnership programs. They also note that they need help with these evaluations. In response, NNPS is offering three new services to help district and state leaders connect measures of the quality of partnership programs with school improvement goals and students’ educational outcomes.

  1. Use NNPS resources and data to identify program strengths and weaknesses.
    1. Schedule training in the use of NNPS evaluation tools and resulting data in your location.
    2. Request NNPS to prepare a detailed one-year or multi-year summary of school UPDATE data from your location.
  2. Combine NNPS resources and locally-collected data.
    1. Use NNPS surveys to collect parent, teacher, and/or student perceptions of school partnership programs, and request data analyses and a customized report of your survey results.
    2. Plan with NNPS and your district’s evaluation office to connect schools’ UPDATE data to longitudinal student achievement, attendance, or other data to learn if the quality of partnership programs contributes to student outcomes.
  3. Add measures of partnerships to your comprehensive data system.
    Learn how to add measures of the quality of schools’ partnership programs to your state’s or district’s general data/accountability system. Evaluate all schools work on family and community involvement and integrate these measures into your assessments of schools and in reports to parents and the public.

For more information on the nature and costs of these services, visit the NNPS website or contact Dr. Steve Sheldon, NNPS Director of Research, at ssheldon@csos.jhu.edu or 410-516-5489.