Thanks Aaron. Measurement problems were a big issue. We experimented with incentives a bit, particularly offering to randomly select from students who completed the post-program survey, and those selected would receive money to give to a charity of their choice, but that didn’t seem to make a difference, or at least we weren’t in a place to offer a significant enough incentive to make a noticeable difference.
The other measurement problem that we ran into was knowing that, given the age of workshop participants, in most cases we wouldn’t be able to measure actionable impact for another ~5 years.
Thanks Aaron. Measurement problems were a big issue. We experimented with incentives a bit, particularly offering to randomly select from students who completed the post-program survey, and those selected would receive money to give to a charity of their choice, but that didn’t seem to make a difference, or at least we weren’t in a place to offer a significant enough incentive to make a noticeable difference.
The other measurement problem that we ran into was knowing that, given the age of workshop participants, in most cases we wouldn’t be able to measure actionable impact for another ~5 years.