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A User’s Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning
This tool takes users through four basic steps that generate the core elements of an advocacy evaluation plan, including what will be measured and how. (25 pages)
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After School News and Notes: Quality Counts
A newsletter outlining the new quality assessment tool for afterschool programs. (6 pages)
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After-School Toolkit: Tips, Techniques, and Templates for Improving Quality
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) developed this toolkit to help afterschool managers create and sustain quality academic programs. It is based on lessons learned during a three-year study of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative funded by The James Irvine Foundation in five California cities. (56 pages)
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Afterschool Nutrition Standards of Excellence
This document explains the standards of excellence for nutrition in afterschool programs including the evaluation procedure, the definition of results, and acknowleding quality sites (9 pages).
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Beyond the Head Count: Evaluating Family Involvement in Out-of-School Time - August 2002
A brief offering an overview of how out-of-school time (OST) programs involve families and examining ways for OST programs to evaluate their own family involvement strategies and practices. (16 pages)
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Building a System of Quality Improvement for School-Age Programs: STATE SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL
This self-assessment tool, designed to accompany Using the Child Care and Development Fund to Support a System of Quality Improvement for School-Age Programs, is available to help state leaders identify the strengths, opportunities, and gaps in their current system of quality supports for school-age programs. (5 pages)
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California After-School Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool
The QSA Tool provides a way to conduct a process evaluation for the internal assessment of programs. It is intended to supplement outcome evaluation results and other informal data. (16 pages)
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California After-School Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool User's Guide
This guide accompanies the QSA Tool, and providers users of the tool with strategies and resources for implementing this assessment in programs. (24 pages)
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Citizen Schools Evaluation System
An overview of the evaluation system that helps policy-makers assess the quality and impact of afterschool programs. (1 page)
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City Strategies - Assessing Local Afterschool Resources and Needs
A strategy paper discussing six steps that municipal leaders should consider when conducting a needs assessment of local afterschool programs and providing examples of how some communities have responded to this challenge. (8 pages)
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Data Collection Instruments for Evaluating Family Involvement
Produced in response to calls from within the family involvement field, this publication provides stakeholders with some commonly used and standardized data collection instruments on family involvement. This
resource can help stakeholders learn about and choose rigorous family involvement instruments to assess impact and ensure quality. By reviewing these and other instruments, program and policy leaders can also think about which measures are most appropriate for their work and how to adapt or develop tools to assess it. (19 pages)
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Detangling Data Collection: Methods for Gathering Data
A snapshot of the common data collection methods used by out-of-school time programs to evaluate their implementation and outcomes. (6 pages)
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Documenting Progress and Demonstrating Results - July 2002
A guide providing practitioners with techniques, tools, evaluations and strategies they can use to improve their programs and track their effectiveness over time. (55 pages)
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Established Standards of Excellence
A tool serving to help programs chart their progress in areas of program management, linkages and participation. (21 pages)
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Food & Nutrition in After-School Programs
A sample survey on food and nutrition in schools. (1 page)
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Harnessing the Power of Afterschool Data Systems
This powerpoint presentation discsses existing data systems, specifically PPICS, what is considered a high quality data system, what type of data is meaningful to collect and how to advocate for data systems. (26 pages)
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Impact Quality Kit
A for-purchase only manual for afterschool professionals outlining each step in developing policies and training staff. The program contains three primary modules: Coaching for Quality, Afterschool Basics and Taming the Paper Monster.
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Learning from Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
A representation of a logic model and lessons learned for the afterschool programs. (4 pages)
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Measurement Tools for Evaluating Out-of-School Time Programs: An Evaluation Resource, Number 6
Harvard Family Research Project’s (HFRP) series of Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshots distills the wealth of information compiled in our Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Research and Evaluation Database into a single report. Each Snapshot examines a specific aspect of out-of-school time (OST) evaluation. This Snapshot describes instruments used by current OST programs to evaluate their implementation and outcomes. (53 pages)
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Measuring Outcomes for Children and Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs: Moving Beyond Measuring Academics
This fact sheet outlines outcomes related to children’s well-being that are the focus of many out-of-school time programs: educational achievement and cognitive attainment; health and safety; social and emotional development; and self-sufficiency. (5 pages)
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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools
This guide was designed to compare the purpose, structure, content and technical properties of several youth program quality assessment tools. (84 pages)
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Missouri Afterschool Program Self-Assessment
This self-assessment tool was developed by Missouri’s afterschool frontline staff, administrators, and intermediaries. It was piloted by nearly 200 afterschool programs throughout Missouri during the 2006-2007 school year, and later revised in response to stakeholder feedback. (16 pages)
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Mobilizing Statewide Resources for a Peer Review Process
A research brief on recruiting, selecting, training and conducting peer reviews. (5 pages)
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Moving Towards Success: Framework for After-School Programs
A framework that: describes a theory of change approach to help guide the thinking and implementation of program goals and elements; outlines a broad range of desired participant outcomes to consider; and discusses conditions most suitable for achieving positive results that meet the needs of the afterschool participants. (48 pages)
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NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool: Planning for Ongoing Program Improvement
This self-assessment tool provides an opportunity for program leaders and key staff, in collaboration with other stakeholders, to utilize a common set of standards to assess, plan, design and execute strategies for ongoing program improvement. (14 pages)
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NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment User's Guide
This User’s Guide offers practical insight on the self-assessment tool and process, and aids in quality improvement and planning efforts for afterschool programs. (56 pages)
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Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Database
An overview of the HFRP evaluation database and its structure, function and search options. (2 pages)
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Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Snapshot
A report providing the academic, youth development and prevention performance measures used by out-of-school time programs to assess their progress. (7 pages)
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Participation in Youth Programs: Enrollment, Attendance and Engagement
For-purchase only report on the construct of participation in out-of-school time programming, posing a three-part equation (participation = enrollment + attendance + engagement) drawing on the latest research and evaluation literature, and providing research-based strategies on how to define, measure, study and increase participation. (144 pages)
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Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool
This self-assessment tool provides a checklist to determine the effectiveness of an afterschool program in 10 key areas. (11 pages)
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Program Quality Self-Assessment User's Guide
This User’s Guide offers practical insight on the self-assessment tool and process, and aids in quality improvement and planning efforts for afterschool programs. (56 pages)
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Promoting Quality Through Professional Development
An issue brief providing a preliminary framework for understanding and implementing evaluations of out-of-school-time professional development initiatives. (12 pages)
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Self-Assessment and Planning for Quality
NC CAP outlined nine quality indicators for afterschool programs. This self-assessment tool provides questions and planning tools for programs to self-evaluate their progress in these nine areas. (66 pages)
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Study of Promising After-School Programs: Observation Manual for Site Verification Visits
A guide on how to verify the overall program quality through observation of program activities and provide program directors and school personnel with information about survey procedures to be used in the final semester of data collection. (24 pages)
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Summer Foods Standards of Excellence Chart
A complement to the standards of excellence document, this provides a checklist to be used during evaluation at program sites (1 page)
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The After-School Initiative's Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development
A toolkit providing sets of questions to measure outcomes common to many afterschool programs aimed at promoting positive youth development. (116 pages)
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The NAA Standards at a Glance
A brochure listing all 144 NAA Standards within 36 keys and six categories.
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Using Evaluation Methods to Promote Continuous Improvement and Accountability in After-School Programs: A Guide
A guide describing a series of steps for designing and conducting evaluations, based on the author's experience in evaluating afterschool programs and other education and youth-development initiatives. (11 pages)
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