Abstract
Improving collaboration among organizations is a goal of interagency educational teams, but collaboration is typically thought of as an ambiguous concept that cannot be quantified. To assess the collaborative strength of a state-level interagency team in a Midwestern state, team members completed the Levels of Collaboration Scale (Frey et al., American Journal of Evaluation 27(3):383, 2006) for three consecutive years. The team members then utilized the results of the social network analysis to support and sustain collaborative efforts. Findings revealed that the number of partnerships increased and the depth of collaboration expanded across the 3 years. Social network analysis results were utilized to develop collaboration strategies, thus influencing the expansion of the network across the 3-year period.
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Noonan, P., Gaumer Erickson, A., McCall, Z. et al. Evaluating change in interagency collaboration of a state-level interagency education team: a social network approach within a utilization-focused framework. Educ Asse Eval Acc 26, 301–316 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-014-9193-2
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