User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/Programs Toolkits/Education/Evaluating your program

Program leaders have found that telling success stories that include numbers of program participants, institutions and partners and content added to Wikimedia projects is one of the best ways to get the attention of school administrators, new partners and the media, but measuring content contributions student-by-student can be tedious and time consuming.

Evaluation Portal
A hub for learning and sharing resources to better understand Wikimedia programs. Read the introduction to the Evaluation Portal or skip to a few that are most relevant:

• Learning Modules about Evaluation, Tracking and Reporting, Wikimetrics, and Designing Surveys: Immerse yourself in a tutorial covering some core concepts and strategies for evaluation
• Case Studies and Evaluation Reports: Read and share your project stories
• The question of Quantitative vs. Qualitative: How to measure your project story
• Measures for Evaluation: A mapping of evaluation measures to priority strategic goals

Learning Pattern Library
A collection of helpful tips and community learning shared as problem and solution sets on topics including:

• Education Extension: A tool for organizing your education program groups on wiki
• Learning patterns about evaluation design:
• Learning Patterns about Evaluation Measurement
• Learning Patterns about Survey Strategies

Education Portal on Outreach:

• Using Wikimetrics for education: Many measurable program goals can be assessed with the WikiMetrics tool developed by the Wikimedia Analytics team.^[1]