Contact information:
PENCIL Foundation
421 Great Circle Rd.
Suite 100
Nashville, TN 37228
Website:
www.pencilfoundation.org
Mission/Goals: The Foundation's mission is to link community
resources with Nashville public schools to help young people achieve
academic success and prepare for life.
Notes: PENCIL Partners is a program in which volunteers work with
students in the public schools to enhance their reading and math skills.
Jobs for Tennessee Graduates provides high school students with academic
support, job readiness instruction, adult mentoring, and leadership
opportunities. The Saint Thomas Science Scholars Program includes
hospital-based learning sessions for selected sophomores.
Source(s):
www.guidestar.org;
www.pencilfd.org |
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Elementary, middle, and high school students |
Type of Evaluation: Non-experimental
Summary of Available Evaluation Information: The PENCIL
Foundation's mission is to link community resources with Nashville public
schools to help young people achieve academic success and prepare for
life. To monitor PENCIL programs' effectiveness, the Foundation conducts
internal outcomes evaluations of their programs, and also relies on data
from the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program which measures
state-wide school achievement. PENCIL Foundation uses educator, student
and volunteer evaluations to assess student performance and improvement.
Results from 2004 indicate that approximately 84% of educators reported
that the benefit of Math Partners to their students was excellent or good,
and 73% reported that the tutoring sessions helped increase students'
understanding of mathematics. In addition, 79% reported that the program
helped students improve their confidence and social skills. All students
responded that their understanding of math improved due to program
participation. For Reading Partners, 95% of the educators who submitted
evaluations regarding their
students who received one-on-one assistance from volunteers reported
observing overall improvement in student reading ability. Similarly, 95%
of students
reported feeling that their reading had improved as a result of working
with Reading Partners.
Source(s):
(1) PENCIL Foundation 2004 Annual Report
(2) Reading Partners Year-End Report 2004
(3) Math Partners Year-End Report 2004
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