Participatory Evaluation for Workforce Development Team Guide | Issue 8 of 8
Who's This For
It is April. You have three reports due. The state workforce office wants quarterly enrollment and placement numbers by the fifteenth. Your institutional research office needs program outcomes for the annual accreditation report by the thirtieth. And the foundation that funded your industry partnership pilot wants a narrative progress report that was technically due last month. You are pulling data from three different spreadsheets, two different offices, and your own memory of conversations that happened in November but were never documented. You know the data exists -- somewhere. You also know that by the time you compile it into reports, the information is too old to inform any decisions. This issue is for program directors managing multi-year grants, evaluators designing reporting cycles, and anyone who has ever felt that reporting consumes the time they should be spending on the program itself.