Overview
The Mini-Corps evaluation report shall focus on examining the extent to which the major goals of the California Mini-Corps are met. The evaluation is designed to be both formative and summative. The primary goal of the California Mini-Corps is to provide direct educational services to migrant students in California. The California Mini-Corps has met this goal through an effective approach that was recognized by the California Legislature through a resolution in 1998. In order to provide quality direct educational services for Migrant children, the Mini-Corps hires and trains college students who were once former migrant students to become teacher assistants of English language learners. These teacher assistants are the key to implementing the school year program; the summer program; collaborative programs; and home visits the Mini-Corps Program offers to the migrant students and their parents. The evaluation results shall examine the programs that are implemented during the school year and summer.

Scope of the Evaluation
Specifically, the evaluation shall focus on the scope of the California Mini-Corps Program; the extent to which the Mini-Corps is addressing its key goal of providing direct services to migrant students; cost efficiency based on ratio of the total budget and migrant students served; process evaluation; quality indicators; and examination of scope of services and program effectiveness; integration of technology to support the implementation process.

Methodology
Data to examine the effectiveness of the California Mini-Corps School Year and Summer Programs will be provided by the Mini-Corps Program. The evaluator attends various, program meetings, and planning meetings. When available the evaluator will conduct site visits to selected sites. School year data will be available through the Mini-Corps database. A thirty percent sampling shall be applied, when sampling for the summer program.

Program Deliverables
In summary the Mini-Corps Program will provide and deliver documentation of the following products/activities to the funding agency at the end of the contract :

• Conduct a school year program and summer program. 
• Provide tutors to migrant children in the state of California.
• Provide a statewide summer Training Institute in June for the summer Mini-Corps participants.
• Provide a statewide summer Outdoor Training Institute in April for the Outdoor Education Program Mini-Corps student participants.
• Conduct a Puppetry Program for the migrant students during the summer.
• Recruit, hire and assign Mini-Corps tutors to work with migrant children in the core curriculum to help them reach the content standards performance in reading, writing and mathematics.
• CA Mini-Corps will maintain a statistical database for the school year program.
• Conduct a minimum of three (3) staff development workshops for the certificated staff.
• Documentation such as student work logs, migrant student contact list, observation forms, Mini-Corps Roster, Roster of Schools Served, Home Visitation reports, Mini-Corps Student Performance Rating forms, etc. will be maintained.
• During the summer health education presentations are provided to migrant children by using puppets. The puppets present to children in the following health areas:  substance abuse, hygiene, nutrition, safety, etc.
• Mini-Corps students will be involved in Parent Teacher Conferences at the request of the teacher or parent to assist in the translation to ensure that teachers are effectively communicating with the parents.

The Mini-Corps Program Evaluation Report will be made available to the migrant programs, colleges and universities where Mini-Corps has established a partnership. The data will reflect primarily the services provided to migrant children in the state of California by the Mini-Corps Program.

Final Report
A final comprehensive report shall be published with the results completed by December  by an outside program evaluator.

2002-03 Academic Year Reports

1. Academic Year Statistics 02-03
2. Teacher Assessment of Pupil 02-03
3. Teacher Assessment of Student 02-03
4. Coordinator Assessment of Pupil 02-03
5. Student Assessment of Mini-corps 02-03

For More Information

Maria Avila - Assistant Superintendent
510 Bercut Drive, Suite Q
Sacramento, CA 95811
Phone: (916) 446-4603
Email: mavila@bcoe.org

Christine Alcocer - Executive Assistant
510 Bercut Drive, Suite Q
Sacramento, CA 95811
Phone: (916) 446-4603
Email: calcocer@bcoe.org