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Achievement Growth in Milwaukee Charter Schools

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Executive Summary The Executive Summary should stand alone as a summary of the key sections of the report, and should summarize the content of the full report without adding new information. The Executive Summary should ideally be no more than three to four pages. Evaluation Purpose and Evaluation Questions This should set out the overarching purpose of the evaluation, and how the findings are expected to be used to inform decisions. This section also describes the Evaluation Questions (which should be limited to just a few key questions). It can also identify key audiences for the evaluation. Project Background Enough information should be provided to give sufficient context. However in the Executive Summary this section can receive less emphasis than it might in the overall report so that more attention can be given to the evaluation purpose, design, limitations, and findings. In the main report it should describe the problem being addressed by the project, and the project logic for why it will lead to better outcomes. This could include a logical framework for the project if one exists, and the development hypothesis, or causal logic, of the project or program of which the project is a part. Evaluation questions, design, methods and limitations This section describes the overall design, specific data collection and analysis methods linked to the evaluation questions, and limitations of the data, methods, or other issues that affected the findings. Findings and

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