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Publications
FEATURED PUBLICATION The Multilevel Person in Context ~ neuroperson (MPCn) Model Guidance for Quality Improvement Systems (QIS) Focused on Socio-Emotional Skill Growth and Transfer Outcomes In this working paper, QTurn introduces a model for thinking about the development of SEL skills in youth programs. We outline how SEL skills are embedded within the wider context … Continue reading Publications
May 16, 2024
Quality Accountability: Improving Fidelity of Broad Developmentally Focused Interventions
Abstract This chapter describes the Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI), a setting-level intervention model designed to raise quality in out-of-school time programs. The YPQI takes managers and staff from a network of youth programs through a process of identifying and addressing strengths and areas for improvement, using a standardized assessment tool. This tool operationalizes a … Continue reading Quality Accountability: Improving Fidelity of Broad Developmentally Focused Interventions
June 26, 2008
Quality and Accountability in the Out-of-School Time Sector
In the fragmented out-of-school-time sector, defining and measuring quality in terms of staff behaviors at the point of service provides a common framework that can reduce obstacles to cross-sector and cross-program performance improvement efforts and streamline adoption of data-driven accountability policies. This chapter views the point of service, that is, the microsettings where adults and … Continue reading Quality and Accountability in the Out-of-School Time Sector
March 1, 2009
Quality at the Point of Service: Profiles of Practice in After-School Settings
Abstract A unique observational data set was used to explore quality at the point of service in after-school programs. Staff practices in after-school settings were represented on a series of unidimensional scales closely indexed to staff behavior. In order to account for heterogeneity of staff performances, pattern-centered methods were used to construct profiles of common … Continue reading Quality at the Point of Service: Profiles of Practice in After-School Settings
April 1, 2010
Quality in the Out-of-School Time Sector: Insights from the Youth PQA Validation Study
From the Introduction: Over the last decade the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation has developed and validated an observational assessment instrument for out-of-school time (OST) programs, the Youth Program Quality Assessment, and several methodologies for its use. This experience has been instrumental in shaping our ideas about what program quality is, how it works, and how … Continue reading Quality in the Out-of-School Time Sector: Insights from the Youth PQA Validation Study
Tags: Theory and Evidence for QIS
March 26, 2006
Quality-Outcomes Study for Seattle Public Schools Summer Programs
This quality-outcomes study was designed to both (a) describe performance in Seattle Public Schools (SPS) summer learning programs in ways that are useful to staff and (b) provide evaluative evidence (i.e., validity) for an instructional model that includes challenging academic content and responsive instructional practices. Results from this study were mainly positive yet partially ambiguous. … Continue reading Quality-Outcomes Study for Seattle Public Schools Summer Programs
Tags: Evaluation Exemplars from QIS Data, quality-outcomes design
January 11, 2018
Realist(ic) Evaluation Tools for OST Programs: The Quality-Outcomes Design and Methods Toolbox
Socio-emotional learning (SEL) skills are a partial but necessary cause of children’s developmental outcomes, and SEL skill growth is a key objective for nearly all out-of-school time (OST) programs. The Quality-Outcomes Design and Methods (Q-ODM) toolbox holds an integrated set of tools to measure and model children’s SEL skills, including how they change during, and in response … Continue reading Realist(ic) Evaluation Tools for OST Programs: The Quality-Outcomes Design and Methods Toolbox
May 16, 2024
Reflections on Our White Paper on Socio-Emotional Skills
In conjunction with the release of White Paper 1 this week – A Framework for Socio-Emotional Skills, Quality, and Equity – we want to mention a few of the highlights: What are socio-emotional skills? In our view, a person’s socio-emotional skills are integrated sets of mental and behavioral parts and processes (i.e., schemas, beliefs, and awareness); these integrated systems are socio-emotional skills and produce both … Continue reading Reflections on Our White Paper on Socio-Emotional Skills
November 22, 2021
Services
OVERVIEW Compassionate, Data-Driven Support for Youth Programs QTurn is dedicated to helping programs unlock children’s full potential. We empower local managers to address real problems using their own instincts and expertise. With the right supports, out-of-school time programs can improve the lives of children and youth. High-quality programs strengthen social skills, foster resilience, improve academic … Continue reading Services
May 17, 2024
Socio-Emotional Skills, Quality, and Equity: The Multilevel Person-in-Context ~neuroperson (MPCn) Framework
Evaluation evidence about the relations among children’s prior history, engagement in program settings, resulting SEL skill growth, and the ultimately desired transfer outcomes (e.g., agency to succeed in other settings) has been sporadic and fragmented. One reason for this may be that the positivist theory and methodology used by most researchers and evaluators is poorly … Continue reading Socio-Emotional Skills, Quality, and Equity: The Multilevel Person-in-Context ~neuroperson (MPCn) Framework
Tags: assessment, beliefs, continuous quality improvement, Framework, measurement, schemas, SEL
May 16, 2024