Hello Anne,
Thank you for your interest. I have posted your question and the following
response on the report's talk page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_talk:Evaluation_portal/Library/WEP
Please continue with any further comments and dialogue there.
Best regards,
Jaime
== For the overall WEP report could you please spell out on the Wiki page
exactly what programs you are talking about, and link each to their
specific report? I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what is being
reported as part of the WEP, what projects are affected, and which programs
have more participants. ==
:Program leaders who self-reported were assured their data would be
reported without their program name identifiers. With this low a report
count, even without program names listed in line with the data, this is
very difficult to do. The implementations reported here represent program
activity in the Arab world program, Czech Republic, Mexico, Nepal, Quebec,
and the US/Canada. The data reported at the bottom actually have unique
"Report ID" numbers that can be matched across the last three tables so
that you can actually regenerate the dataset missing only event names (See
Appendix heading "More Data" for the complete input, output, and outcome
data used in the report). Those data include the instructor classroom
count, number of program weeks, and participant counts for each
implementation reported. In the future we plan to ask program leaders what
level of identifiability in this reporting they are comfortable with and
include identifiers in cases in which reporters volunteer to share that
information publicly.
:However, as there is some expressed interest in possibly comparing
programs, I must restate the need for caution, at this early stage in the
reporting, with such small numbers of implementers reporting (less than 10%
potentially), we are aware that the data do not represent all programming,
and that the data are too variable to draw comparisons between programs
statistically. Further, in the case where the count of classroom varies
highly across implementations, aggregate reporting of more than one-hundred
classrooms is not directly comparable to the reporting of a single
classroom since summative statistics from an increased number of
observations generates a ''regression to the mean'' and do not make for a
one-to-one comparison.
:These issues as well as any other comments and/or suggestions are welcome
on this talk page.
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