Monitoring and Evaluation

CYC uses a variety of quantitative and qualitative strategies to monitor and evaluate our outcomes and goals. We administer pre- and post- surveys to evaluate student growth in social-emotional skills, STEM engagement, and attitudes about school. We also collect report data to monitor attendance and academic achievement.

Continuous Improvement

CYC is in the process of enhancing our data and analytics collections to increase fidelity in data reporting. We are working to ensure intentionality with our data monitoring and analysis to track comprehensive goals that align our outcomes with programming. CYC has dedicated staff members whose roles focus on data and analytics to increase CYC’s ability to accurately report outcomes and effectively use data to inform programming.

Collaboration

As members of the Chicago Benchmarking Collaborative, CYC shares knowledge with partners to determine proven best practices and place our results in context with other leading agencies. Through this work and streamlining our data collection process, CYC has refined our outcomes matrix and impact framework to track the most relevant student outcomes.  

Our Impact in 2023

Survey results demonstrated the following results from the Early Learning Program, for children ages 15 months - 5 years old:

  • 86% of children met of exceeded social-emotional learning goals.

  • 87% of children met of exceeded physical goals.

  • 91% of children met or exceeded physical goals.

  • 82% of children met or exceeded literacy goals.

  • 80% of children met of exceeded mathematics goals.

  • 75% of children met Spanish language and literacy goals.

  • 100% of children (ages 3-5) advances to the next grade level.

  • 103 5-year-old children transitioned to kindergarten.

Survey results demonstrated the following results from the Out-of-School Time (OST) Program, for children ages 6 - 18 years old:

  • 91% of children reported that when they grow up they would like to have a job that allows them to be creative and innovative.

  • 87% of children reported that they enjoy building things.

  • 80% of children reported that when they can’t learn something right away, they keep trying until they get it.

  • 80% of children reported that they like to learn new things in math.

  • 77% of children reported that they are good at solving problems.