World Bank Youth Impact Assessment 2006
Under contract to the World Bank, World Links carried out a four month impact assessment of its youth-targeted activities in ten countries. The main purpose of the study was to assess the impact of World Links activities on youth, both in-school and out-of-school, in terms of enhanced learning, acquired skills or changed attitudes. World Links examined its past and current programs in the ten countries and focused on three sub-groups of participants: students currently participating in the World Links program, students who participated in World Links programs at least two years ago, and out-of-school youth who use World Links-developed school-based telecenters.
The assessment was based on the analysis of data gathered with a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques. Related but distinct versions of core surveys were developed and made available on-line to assessment leaders in each country for use with each of the three sub-groups, forming three separate but linked studies:
In-school youth: World Links sought to understand the degree to which teachers who had participated in World Links programs had responded to its primary objective of changing the manner in which they teach and then to examine indicators of the extent to which those changed practices led to the knowledge, skills and attitudes posited as key to future success among youth.
Former World Links students (alumni): Through the Alumni assessment, World Links strove to find how exposure to and the educational use of ICTs via World Links program in schools affected future youth opportunities in terms of employment, career choices and global awareness.
Out-of-School youth: In the out-of-school youth assessment, World Links chose to explore if and how facilitated community access to technology might impact use by out-of-school and at-risk youth and how that use could affect youth “opportunity” in its broadest sense.
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