Q&A
Public availability of Summer Rising program evaluation data
1:40:39
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Council Member Stevens inquires about the public availability of Summer Rising program evaluation data, including academic assessments and surveys. DOE and DYCD officials respond to this inquiry.
- DOE officials state that the evaluation data has been used primarily for internal continuous improvement
- They express willingness to consider packaging and sharing some of the data in the future
- DYCD officials mention that they conduct both formal and informal evaluations, working closely with DOE to avoid redundancy
- DYCD uses various evaluation tools, including program manager site visits and individual monitoring tools
- Both agencies emphasize that they are not keeping feedback secret and have discussed it openly in the hearing
Althea V. Stevens
1:40:39
Is this information public, and especially the academic piece around the the evaluations and surveys and things like that?
1:40:46
It's it's so why not?
Emma Vadehra
1:40:48
It's really something we've been using internally for continuous improvement as we look towards our next evaluation cycle, it's definitely on our minds that we come here and end up sharing this with you, and so we will think about what makes sense to package and share.
Angela Faloye
1:41:01
Thank you.
1:41:01
And I'd like to add that as the program director For me, it's very important that we understand where the gaps are.
1:41:10
So with the survey, this is my time to understand how can we improve.
1:41:15
I'm very happy about this hearing today because I'm ready.
1:41:18
I'm ready to capture and implement many of the items and suggestion that you have said.
1:41:25
But for example, in this survey, we even asked about yoga and mindfulness.
1:41:29
We had a yoga and mindfulness curriculum and we asked students.
1:41:34
Did how did you feel?
1:41:35
Do you even feel that the we actually had livestream webinars that we talked about mindfulness.
1:41:43
We actually showed yoga poses, and I wanted to know these live streams where they're effective and they were on the survey, and we ask that to both staff and to students and we got our feedback.
1:41:54
So for me, it's really about the work and about how do we improve.
1:42:00
So we have open ended questions So to your question, is it only yes and or no?
1:42:05
No.
1:42:05
We have more intentional and, again, open ended questions.
1:42:10
So I know in collaboration with the YC and my peers here how to improve.
Althea V. Stevens
1:42:19
Oh, I'm sorry.
1:42:20
Go ahead.
Susan Haskell
1:42:20
Well, Jess Stevens, we also we do a tremendous amount of evaluation.
1:42:24
Informal evaluation.
1:42:26
Formal evaluation.
1:42:27
We have contracted with policy studies associates, and we work really closely in the evaluations.
1:42:32
Our evaluation team talking to York City Public Schools Evaluation teams.
1:42:35
Let's not ask the same questions.
1:42:37
Let's make sure we're enhancing and, you know, eliminating redundancy.
1:42:41
So we we work in really close partnership on those efforts.
Althea V. Stevens
1:42:44
Is your information made public?
Susan Haskell
1:42:46
I think I I feel the same that that it's been used for internal purposes largely.
1:42:52
I I feel we may have shared those some of those with you over the course of the years, but we can look back and see what we can do.
1:42:58
We're not keeping any of the feedback secret.
1:43:01
We've talked about it openly here.
1:43:03
And you know I think that at aycd, we have program managers who go out on sleep visits, visit every single program.
1:43:10
They have components around administration, program service, quality of activities.
1:43:16
So we have individual evaluation monitoring tools that we activate as well each summer.
