The AmeriCorps Member Exit Survey (MES) captures AmeriCorps’ members insights about their service experience and attitudes upon exiting AmeriCorps service. Over 350,000 members across the three AmeriCorps service streams (AmeriCorps State and National, AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps NCCC) have completed the survey since April 2015. The AmeriCorps MES data includes information on members’ civic-mindedness, community involvement, cultural competencies, and developed life and career skills (based on the AmeriCorps Member Theory of Change). Additionally, the survey asks how members felt about their training, why they wanted to serve with AmeriCorps, and their post-service plans.
This webinar details why the agency asks the questions provided in the survey, shows how the Office of Research and Evaluation analyzes the data, and provides insights on what the data means for stakeholders such as state service commissions, agency staff, and any policymakers looking to see AmeriCorps’ impact on its participants.
Learning Objectives
- Gain awareness of the types of questions data from the MES can answer and the types of analyses ORE can conduct with said data.
- Demonstrate familiarity with what most AmeriCorps members think and feel regarding civic engagement, cultural competency, skills gained through serving, and much more.
- Learn how ORE disaggregates the MES data by timeframe, demographics, programs, and more.
- Learn what ORE currently knows about historical trends in the MES data and what analyses it hopes to conduct.