Diagnostic

Approach

The EXCELerator District Diagnostic is a tool designed to analyze strengths and challenges in the district’s capacity to ensure college readiness. The EXCELerator team uses a variety of methods to gather data — document review, data analysis, stakeholder interviews and school visits — to diagnose the district’s foundation in five essential components.

Components:

Analysis

EXCELerator uses a multistage, research-driven process and works closely with the district to continuously refine findings at multiple stages.

Stages:

Results

The EXCELerator team presents the Diagnostic findings in a final District Diagnostic Report that includes identification of the critical issues facing the district’s college readiness infrastructure, a set of recommendations for improving the college readiness infrastructure and the detailed evidence supporting EXCELerator’s findings.