ACTE PACE Summit 2024

Effective data collection is not just about receiving the most responses to your survey; it is about having data that represents your program and analyzing your results to tell your program’s story. These factors ensure alignment of the program to outcomes and impact. The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation’s career and technical education program, ProStart, collects both annual and cyclical data from its program participants, schools, and educators to capture implementation trends and program and participant characteristics. NRAEF has moved beyond simple summary of these individual collection points to look at new connection points within the data with the goal of determining partners in greater need of targeted support. Learn how the NRAEF completed this project, the lessons learned throughout implementation, and how it is working with state partners to use data for good.