Ensure your work gets the recognition it deserves by putting in place these simple ways to increase the robustness, reliability and accuracy of your impact reporting.
#10 Success Scores
Success Scores enable you to understand your progress-over-time at a glance whenever you analyse an eligible metric or survey question. There are three scores and each one is automatically calculated for every Scale-based question set to Single Choice.
The Success Scores enable you to see the following:
- the % of contacts or survey respondents who have improved (in other words, Distance Travelled)
- the average amount of improvement across all contacts
- the % of the way there - a current snapshot of progress across all contacts
Now you can get an understanding of Distance Travelled without needing to review every respondent's answer on every survey they've completed.
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#9 Lenses
With Lenses you can slice your results demographically to sharpen your insights. Understand how attendance figures vary based on gender or compare responses to a survey question based on the respondent's nationality. Every relevant demographic characteristic that's saved in your Dropdowns becomes available as a Lens that you can use to analyse your results.
This lets you see performance, attainment and any other KPI from a diversity perspective. You'll be able to spot which segments of your audience are doing well and identify the segments that need extra attention.
#8 Outcome Rings
Outcome Rings turn individual survey responses into a clear visual story that makes it easy for everyone to understand the shape of the results. Outcome Rings display a person's answers to related survey questions on a 'spider plot' which reveals strengths, gaps, and overall patterns at a glance.
As a visual aide they help participants and practitioners make sense of progress. Rather than requiring them to interpret tables with words and numbers, you can instead empower them with visuals that highlight just how far a participant has come, while at the same time pinpointing areas for further growth. This makes Outcome Rings a dynamic and engaging diagnostic tool - now you can transform raw data into meaningful insights that drive personal development and honest group discussions.
You're not limited to looking at individual participants on Outcome Rings. You can also see and overlay the following:
- the Mean Average response from an entire cohort of participants
- Observations recorded by your colleagues about participants
- Self-reflections submitted by participants themselves
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#7 Intervention Alerts
You can use Makerble's powerful and customisable Automations Engine to let you know when you need to intervene regarding specific participants based on criteria such as their survey responses, form submissions and engagement. For example - if a participant has failed to attend 5 out of 6 sessions, you can trigger an SMS message to them and send a notification to the manager of that initiative. In this way you can use real-time information about participants to automatically notify you of additional actions you need to take to get things back on track.
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#6 Impact Scorecards
Impact Scorecards act as early-warning signals that let you know whether your initiative is at risk of failing to achieve the intended impact. The scorecards organise your metrics pragmatically so you can focus on putting your theory of change into practice.
Impact Scorecards turn your measurement framework into an interactive way to diagnose where along the process your project, service, programme or campaign needs to improve. You can even add open-ended targets and deadline-based milestones to every metric so that it's easy to monitor performance across every initiative you work on.
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#5 Multi-version surveys
Adjust your survey questions without needing to duplicate them. Survey Versions on Makerble give you the freedom to adapt your survey questions as you go. Every survey contains Core Questions which you can choose to hide, reword or keep in subsequent versions of the survey. This means you can still compare responses - for longitudinal analysis, such as when you have a baseline, midpoint and endpoint - and you can aggregate responses to see the totals across different projects even though questions might be worded slightly differently.
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#4 Triangulation (360° Surveys)
Make your results indisputable by broadening the sources you draw from. 360° Surveys enable you to supplement the views of practitioners and the self-refections of participants with third-party perspectives from other people who know or have experience of the participants. For example - you can gather the opinions of friends, family members or coworkers about a single participant.
Analysis of these additional perspectives is made manageable on Makerble through the use of filters and a dedicated mode within Outcome Rings that automatically summarises the responses from every 360° observer who has submitted a survey about a participant.
#3 Verdicts
Every survey response means something, but interpreting the meaning can take time. Verdicts on Makerble allow you to automatically classify every survey response based on the combination of answers chosen. This speeds up decision-making when it comes to deciding what to do next with a participant once they've completed a survey.
Verdicts are typically used in medical scenarios where a particular set of answers indicates a specific diagnosis. But you can create your own decision-making formulas that enable you to intelligently classify each participant based on their answers to your questions.
#2 Benchmark Comparisons
Understand how one cohort performed compared to another. Contrast contacts with one characteristic versus contacts of another. See how results from one year differ from results from another. You can do side-by-side comparisons like these and more using the Comparison features available on Makerble.
One definition of impact is the difference you've made compared to what would have happened anyway. With Benchmark Comparisons on Makerble you can create your own benchmarks to compare results against and if you're running a control group or even a randomised controlled trial, you can manage your results on Makerble and see the differences between both groups easily.
#1 Financial Impact
Money talks. The Financial Value Calculator on Makerble enables you to calculate the Social Value or Social Return on Investment of your initiative. This gives you the evidence to defend your initiative against calls that it isn't sufficient value for money and arguments that it doesn't contribute to the economy. You can add pre-built calculations into Makerble that will automatically sum up the Financial Impact of your initiative based on the number of indicators that have been achieved. Your Financial Impact is updated in real-time.
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