BELL's evaluation activities are guided, advised, and endorsed by an external, interdisciplinary group, BELL's national Evaluation Advisory Board. The general responsibility of the Evaluation Advisory Board is to oversee the application of principles and standards established in the evaluation and assessment fields. Read more about the Evaluation Advisory Board here
| Evaluation Purpose | | BELL evaluates its programs to measure the academic and social gains of its scholars; improve its programs; and to disseminate best practices. Evaluation will answer questions about program outcomes of interest to all stakeholders, including the scholars served, scholars' families, schools, BELL staff, donors, educational practitioners and policy-makers. |
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| Evaluation Questions | | The evaluation questions posed to measure outcomes of the BELL After School and BELL Summer programs include: |
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- Did scholars demonstrate improved literacy and math skills?
- Did scholars demonstrate improvement during the school day?
- Did scholars report higher levels of self-esteem?
- Did scholars demonstrate improved social skills?
- Did parents engage in scholars' education?
- What did parents think of the program?
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| Evaluation Tools | | BELL uses the following tools to measure the academic and social gains of scholars: |
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| Standardized Tests | | BELL administers nationally-recognized standardized tests to quantify gains in literacy and math. |
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| Skills-based Assessments | | BELL implements quizzes regularly to monitor progress against the individual learning goals of every BELL scholar. |
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| Standardized Social Assessments | | BELL uses several standardized tools to measure scholars' development of self-esteem and social skills. |
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| Report card and portfolio tracking | | BELL collects report cards and maintains portfolios of scholar work to monitor improvements in core skills. |
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| Surveys | | BELL distributes surveys to teachers, tutors, parents and principals to learn more about scholars' academic and social gains and identify areas of improvement. |
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| Evaluation Advisory Board | | BELL draws on the expertise of national leaders in the academic evaluation field. |
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| Mr. Jeffrey Capizzano | | Teaching Strategies, Inc. |
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| Dr. Duncan Chaplin | | Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
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| Dr. Leslie Goodyear | | Educational Development Center, Inc. |
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| Dr. Jean Baldwin Grossman | | Public/Private Ventures |
| Princeton University |
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| Dr. Denise Huang | | National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) |
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| Dr. Gina Schuyler Ikemoto | | RAND Corporation |
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| Ms. Priscilla Little | | Harvard Family Research Project |
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| Dr. Beth Miller | | Nellie Mae Education Foundation |
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| Ms. Elizabeth Reisner | | Policy Studies Associates, Inc. |
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