AVID Case Study

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The questions we hope to answer through this evaluation are as follows:
1. Is implementation faithful to the design of the program?
2. Does implementation of AVID vary across sites and do these variations help or hurt students in different regions? Are changes made done so in order to better serve the AVID student population?
3. Do AVID students have increased rates of high school graduation, college attendance, and college graduation than non-AVID students?
4. Do AVID students show evidence of higher levels of “college readiness” than non-AVID students? Do they report feelings of college readiness any stronger than non-AVID students?
5. Are resources being distributed equitably and fairly across sites?
To monitor implementation
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Then, the nonprofit can adjust any changes that need to be made in order to better the program for its students. It may be necessary to change the process or structure of the program, or find new ways of accommodating students which were found to be lacking throughout the evaluation. Resources will not permit the evaluation of every AVID class in the nation, but luckily our findings can be distributed to each teacher. It could be possible, too, that we will find negative impacts of the program. In this case, action will be taken to change the causes for the immediate relief of the …show more content…
This can only happen by sharing the information we find and sugggesting new methods for improvement. In the evaluation report we will suggest changes to the AVID organization that may be helpful in acheiveing its purpose of higher high school graduation and college attendance rates.

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