HCS EdConnect Evaluation

While the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the capabilities of remote home learning with over a billion children displaced from school, the community of Chattanooga, TN, was positioned quite differently. A long history of community-based technology initiatives and local infrastructure allowed a public/private partnership to scale the nation's most robust community broadband initiative: HCS EdConnect, powered by EPB. Recognizing this opportunity for research and evaluation, an inter-disciplinary Boston College team is leading efforts to help project stakeholders better capture and analyze the formative and summative impacts of the initiative. Over multiple years, an equity evaluation model employs a variety of data collection efforts undertaken with local partners including surveys, interviews, and secondary analyses of user and system data.

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