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Evaluating a Gap/Bridge Year Program: Challenges of Self-selected Participants and Evaluating in a New and Unexplored Field 

10-19-2013 12:31

The gap/bridge year movement is on the rise in the U.S., and Global Citizen Year, a growing program receiving significant external support, recruits and trains a diverse corps of high-potential graduating seniors and immerses them in emerging economies during a “bridge year” between high school and college. This paper will focus on the challenges associated with being the first known gap/bridge year program to conduct and connect a process and outcome evaluation using both surveys and participant interviews, and share its findings with both funders and within the industry. Specifically, the paper will focus on and the ways in which the evaluators attempted to (1) overcome issues of self-selection and the absence of national or “norm” data on gap/bridge year participants or programs, (2) understand evaluation results in a new and evolving organization and field, and (3) connect learning outcomes to program elements.

#YouthFocusedEvaluation #InternationalandCross-CulturalEval #AssessmentinHigherEducation #bridgeyear #2013Conference #gapyear #CollegeAccessPrograms #GraduateStudentandNewEvaluators

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