You are director of an agency that works to decrease the school dropout rate. Your agency receives funding from the federal government, United Way and private foundations. All three funding sources require grantees to include output and outcome measures and accomplishments in their annual program reports. First, describe why the funding sources would require output, outcome, accomplishments and cost data to be included in your reports. Secondly, list at least two examples of outputs, outcomes, accomplishments. and cost data you might list in your reports—including hypothetical numeric/qualitative measures.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: It allows funding agencies to compare efficiency, effectiveness, and unit cost of similar programs: output—100 at-risk students have been enrolled in the program in the last year, outcome—of those 100 at-risk students, 80 are still in school at the end of the first year of the program, and impact—the dropout rate in the local high school has decreased by 10% in the first year of the program.
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