for participants. This puts you in the bottom half of the pyramid – describing outcomes and comparing the outcomes among programs. To that end, your next steps are: 1. To clarify your desired outcomes and determine how you are going to measure them. 2. Put data capture systems into place that allow you to collect outcomes metrics across all programs in a standardized way. 3. Examine the outcomes for each program. If you find that one program seems to have much stronger outcomes than the others, then you can dive in with a qualitative study to try and unpack why that’s the case. For example, are one program’s instructors more highly rated? Does it have a higher participant completion rate? Do participants retain greater knowledge 6 months out? Etc. You also might use data from this study to inform future quasi-experimental or experimental tests of some of the programs that seem most promising. However you use the data, it will increase your understanding of this important work. Kudos to you for starting down this road! Let me know if I may be of further assistance.
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