The Short Answer 1. Ask people how they experience the results (e.g. healthy and safe children) in their every day lives. What do we see, hear, feel? For example, for safe children, we might observe children wearing bike helmets. 2. Experience” is the bridge between plain language results and indicators. … Read More
2.7 How do we select indicators for a result?
The Short Answer 1. Start by assessing the result in terms of everyday experience, what we see hear, or feel about children ready for school or stable families. 2. Brainstorm a list of candidate indicators. Each entry is a data statement, e.g. % of children reading at grade level, rate … Read More
2.8 Where do we get the data for indicators? How do we get better data?
The Short Answer 1. Look at what others have done. There are many websites with report cards and data sources that others have used. (See tools.) 2. Get your partners to help access what now is produced. Sometimes the best data on child and family well-being comes from the public … Read More
2.9 What do we do if we don’t have any good data at all?
The Short Answer 1. Use the results and the experiential version of results to drive the process. Instead of asking “How are we doing on the baseline?” we ask “How are we doing producing the result we want?” How prevalent are the experiences which tell us about this result?” “Are … Read More
2.10 How do we create a report card and what do we do with it?
The Short Answer 1. Gain organizational and political sponsorship, necessary to produce the document and give it standing in the decision making process. 2. Identify results and indicators, using a broad process to involve partners, and grounded in a conceptually clear framework. See 2.5 and 2.6, and 2.7. 3. Gather the data, starting with … Read More