ASU Education Partnerships

Program Links

• Quest for Kids
• Creciendo Unidos
• Bridges Lab
• Bridges Discovery
• Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
• AZIMASE
• Mesa Writing Project
• The Greater Phoenix Region (GPR) Education Indicators Project

Related Schools & Organizations

• The home page for Johns Hopkins University's National Network of Partnership Schools provides extensive links to research involving partnerships between schools, families, and communities.
• Howard University's Center for Urban Progress provides the results of community-based research studies evaluating social and economic programs designed for urban locations.
• The University of Vermont Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS) webpage provides links to both service learning and university-school partnership resources. This website also provides several examples of partnership evaluation practices.
• The Boston Indicators Project webpage details a comprehensive evaluation designed to measure progress in the city of Boston in several public sectors, such as education, housing, and public health. Included in this webpage are discussions on the selection of project indicators and measures.
• Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy analyzes public policy within the state of Arizona through research and program evaluation.
• The Goldman Sachs Foundation's Social Impact Assessment webpage offers a detailed discussion on the assessment of youth and workplace development. Topics include an overview of the foundation's assessment methods, case studies, and future directions.
• The University of Wisconsin-Extension website provides a comprehensive overview of the UW-Extension model, and describes it's use in planning, analyzing, and evaluating educational programs.
• With a focus on "America's tough neighborhoods," the Pathways Mapping Initiative compiles information from research, theory, and practice in order to identify successful public programs. The website describes methods of assessing progress in the areas of school readiness and family economic success.
• Columbia Business School's Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) explores the effects of social policy on both for-profit and non-profit domains.
• The United Way's Outcome Measurement Resource Network website provides documents describing the approaches and challenges associated with outcome measurement.
• The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Logic Model Development Guide provides a very thorough overview of the Logic Model, including why it is used and how to apply it to program evaluation. Multiple exercises and templates are also provided to guide the use of the Logic Model in program evaluation.

Data Links

• Arizona Department of Education
• AYP & AZLEARNS
• District Search
• District & School Report Cards
• Enrollment
• One Year Growth
• Gender & Ethnicity Reports
• Dropout Rates
• Graduation Rates
• Measure of Academic Progress (MAP)
• Free & Reduced Lunch Reports
• School District Demographics (2000)
• School District Demographics Profile
• ELL Data
• KIDS Count - State-Level Data
• Census City & Zip Code Demographics
• NCES State Education Profiles
• NAEP Website
• Arizona Public School Rankings

Statistics Links

• One and two tailed tests
• Effect Statistics (Hopkins)

Systems Thinking

• Overview
• Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialization
• Guidelines for Drawing Causal Loop Diagrams
• Causal Inference in the Social Sciences: Variance Theory, Process Theory, and System Dynamics

Promising Practices

Promising Practices Network