How will the data be collected?
What is the time commitment required by the schools?
Recognizing the demands on educator’s lives, the majority of the data collected is readily accessible. The majority of the quantitative data will be accessed using Cal-PASS Plus (https://www.calpassplus.org/), a statewide organization that facilitates the sharing of data between k-12 and high education. Participating schools must have their school districts participate in Cal-PASS Plus (over 500 districts already participate) that allows for data sharing with UC Santa Barbara, where the evaluation will take place.
Other student-level data not collected by CAL PASS (absences, suspensions and expulsions) must be supplied by the participating school districts. The schedule for providing such data is:
| Summer 2016 | Data for 2015-16 8th grade students |
| Winter 2017 | Data for Fall Semester 2016 9th grade students |
| Summer 2017 | Data for Spring Semester 2017 9th grade students |
| Similar schedule for subsequent years |
For qualitative assessment, UC graduate students will conduct 20 minute interviews with key instructors and administrators up to three times per year the first year and two times per year the second year.