Program Success
Success takes many different forms, and our metrics for student success have been developed to tell the story of each of our scholars and how they have derived value from their education; these metrics provide us with a balanced report card through a mix of quantitative and qualitative measures. Similarly, our metrics for the success of our programs and our success as an organization capture how well we're doing today, and how effectively we're striving to be even better tomorrow.
Program success refers to how effectively our sponsorship programs - from the student and school selection processes, to the support we provide each NCEP scholar to help them succeed, to our methods of evaluation - align with our values.
We believe that education makes a difference. We believe that education teaches children to dream big, and empowers them to pursue these dreams. An investment in education is not just an investment in individuals, but in the prosperity and well-being of communities over the long-term. When we evaluate the success of our programs, therefore, we use a broad range of short-term and long-term, and quantitative and qualitative measures to capture the myriad ways in which education can make a difference.
One way of monitoring the value of education in the short-term is by reviewing the grades that NCEP scholars attain at school. However, a child's progress cannot be reduced solely to a set of numbers or letter grades, and by keeping in close contact with NCEP scholars - while they are attending secondary school and after they have graduated - their families, and their teachers, we are able to gauge their development, track their successes, identify areas for improvement, and tell their stories both in the short- and long-term in a much more meaningful way.
NCEP is committed to continuous improvement, and an integral element of our sponsorship programs is to open two-way channels of communications that connect our team in Canada with our donors, volunteers, scholars, and their teachers and families in Nepal. This allows us to learn from their experiences with NCEP, and adapt our programs accordingly.