A foundation had been working with K-12 education for several years and wanted to find out whether what it was doing was working. Although it could find the results of the annual tests on the Department of Education websites for each state, it could not deduce the answers to this question from the way the data were presented.
ViKiwi found student performance and student demographic data from public sources, sometimes going to several sources for a single state, and pieced together multi-year histories that extended before and (in some cases) after the foundation’s interventions. To highlight not only whether the targeted districts and subgroups were improving but also whether they were catching up with the rest of the pack, they developed reports that graphed the trends in gap closure as well as performance. The foundation could quickly see the impact of its programs from the executive summaries, and could study the story behind the results by going into the body of each report.
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