Evaluation Design

Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills is a program of the Community for Education Foundation that develops students’ socioemotional skills to help them improve academic achievement, graduate from high school, and prepare for college and a career. Observing the success of this program among individual students, Overcoming Obstacles sought a method to quantitatively measure its impact and requested a Capstone team to design an evaluation plan and assess program effectiveness. The team collected data through surveys to measure the success of both the middle and high school programs, producing a new data collection system and an assessment tool that employs pre- and post-survey results. Using the resources developed by the Capstone team, Overcoming Obstacles will be able to quantifiably measure the effectiveness of its curriculum and determine areas in need of improvement.