Empowering High School Communities to Evaluate Their Programs Through Alumni Surveys
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2023-10
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Digital Promise
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This presentation explores how iterative co-design was used as a culturally responsive methodology to design alumni surveys for equity-focused high schools. Digital Promise, as the evaluation partner, collaboratively built diverse design teams incorporating teachers, administrators, community partners, alumni, parents, and students from school communities. The teams actively engaged in the survey design process, continuously considering how alumni perspectives could enhance equity within the programs. Crucially, Digital Promise emphasized that the school communities retained control throughout the project, allowing them to generate goals and questions, finalize the question set, determine the survey sample, review results, ideate next steps, and provide input at every stage. Digital Promise aims to leverage these experiences for continued work with schools, placing a renewed emphasis on equity, scalability, healing, and sustainability.
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