Data for a Cause - Pencils of Promise

The Data For A Cause challenge is about Pencils of Promise.

Pencils of Promise partners with national governments and builds public schools for students in hard-to-reach rural areas in Laos, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Ghana.

This visualization focused on their recent evaluations of teacher instruction in Ghana. Pencils of Promise builds out their literacy programs with Ghanaian communities. They construct schools with communities and train government teachers via Teacher Support programming to improve students’ reading, writing, and comprehension.

Pencils of Promise collected data to create genuine insight and honest learnings that help them improve the effectiveness of their programming through examining data representing teachers' scores.

The goal: visualize effectiveness of Teacher Support programming by analyzing changes within individual teachers' scores over time, as well as average scores and average changes by the question in Treatment vs Control status.