Completion rates and satisfaction surveys are easy to collect and poor at predicting whether anyone can do the work six months later. SNDPI builds evaluation that asks the harder question: did the learning transfer to performance on the job, and did it hold?
Working in partnership with Santa Noeta Research, we design evaluation around transfer measures — supervisor ratings, observed task performance, and retention collected at six and twelve months post-completion — alongside the proximal measures most programs stop at. We build these protocols to run on real budgets and in community-based partnerships, because an evaluation plan nobody can afford to execute is just a paragraph in a proposal.
The point is not to grade the program. The point is to know whether it worked, in time to fix it if it didn’t.