2018-402-E Arts - Musical Empowerment arts grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 92F81BA3- 0613- 40DE- ACD5- AA8B6D32ABCA How will you We measure our achievement in terms of both qualitative and evaluate whether or quantitative outcomes, as measured by satisfaction of participants not your goals have and objective changes in relevant indicators. Each semester our been met? teachers submit progress reports, our students and parents fill out surveys, and our Program Director observes and evaluates lessons at each chapter. (Note: Our new Program Director, Allison Flors, will be starting July 2.) We work with impact evaluation advisors to improve how we collect our success metrics and gather data on long -term impact. As these data - gathering and reporting methods are incorporated into festi, our ability to make qualitative and quantitative observations will become even more refined. Qualitative outcomes of progress Our goals are not only to teach kids to play instruments, but to help them and their families achieve the competence and confidence that come from getting good at something enjoyed by an entire community, one of the greatest attributes of music, and establishing the kinds of bonds between student and teacher that build mutual respect, that demonstrate to parents the benefits of positive role - models and nurturing teaching. Our 2017 -2018 progress reports and surveys have set the benchmarks we hope to meet or surpass in the coming year's evaluation. Quantitative measures We have established norms for the most important variables, particularly those associated with teacher, parent and student satisfaction, as well as student progress musically and in terms of life skills. Each year has seen substantive progress, not only in the measures, such as percent of highly satisfied parents, but in the measurement, that is, our ability to derive pictures of meaningful numerical change. We will use benchmark statistics from the 2017- 2018 academic year program evaluation. Finally, we are examining the feasibility of a case - control study using anonymized end -of year exam scores and /or report cards to measure academic benefits.