To improve the post-program survey completion, a small gift card was offered to those who completed their surveys in 2015 and 2016.
The post-program survey also included questions on whether senior graduating students had applied to college and about their majors, as well as open-ended qualitative questions to express their opinion.
Most of the evaluation data for level 1 were collected by two questionnaires, the post-module survey and the post-program survey.
Table 2 gives the number of students that completed the post-program surveys.
From the 2014 cohort alone, 19 of the 20 graduating high school students who completed post-program surveys reported that they are continuing into post-secondary education.
Because the pre- and post-program surveys evolved over the three cohorts, it is difficult to quantitatively correlate longitudinal development from these differing surveys.
Ultimately, the collaboration between VoSNL and YouthREX has enhanced VoSNL's evaluation capacity and culture while producing evaluation tools (e.g., pre- and post-program surveys) that will be used for long-term program evaluation and improvement.
In pre- and post-program surveys, female and underrepresented minority students reported that SMART activities and their relationship with mentors have increased their awareness of how stormwater affects the community and increased their interest in pursuing a STEM career.
While the post-institute and the mid-term surveys were designed and used to assess the participants' perception of the SMART institute and their engagement in their engineering and science practices (these surveys are not presented here), the pre-program and post-program surveys were designed to assess the attainment of the project objectives.
Pre- and post-program surveys that assessed knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about medical school were administered to the participants of the 2000 and 2001 programs (Additional file: 1).
Patient outcomes were self-reported via pre- and post-program surveys completed at the time of enrolment and sixteen weeks after program commencement.
