We have made available portions of a report, prepared in conjunction with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, that evaluates accomplishments and lessons learned from our Phase 1 Projects.

The report covers the initial two-year phase of IU work, from 1996-1998, and discusses the twenty pilot projects completed during that time.

During Phase 1, in partnership with the San Francisco and Oakland Unified School Districts, the IU set out to develop a model of how the University can best use the Internet to help K-12 students, their families, and teachers in disadvantaged urban communities. Read more . . .

The Department of Commerce was a major funder of IU's Phase 1 Projects. There are evaluations of IU work at the website of the Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program (TOP).

TOP requires all grant recipients to conduct evaluations of their projects. Evaluations based on project goals and objectives aid in self-monitoring and allow project course corrections, assessment of short-term impacts, and development of indicators of long-range impact. The Interactive University Project's evaluation was chosen in Spring 2001 by TOP as an exemplary evaluation. At the TOP site you will find both the IU's own evaluation report, and an independant case study report, commissioned by TOP and conducted by WESTAT, a Rockville, Maryland, research and consulting firm.

For the past three years, the IU has also provided an annual evaluation report to the School University Partnership Program, formerly the UC Berkeley Pledge: