In OST organizations that focus on student’s socio-emotional skills and wellbeing, pandemic conditions created new urgency to staff’s desire to know how students and caregivers were doing. While many OST organizations know how to ask families about basic needs created by the pandemic – health care, housing, food, transportation – sometimes staff are less comfortable … Continue reading Subjective Well-Being (SWB)
The Newark Trust for Education (NTE) Parent Child Plus (PC+) program is an evidence-based early childhood education program for families in the Newark, NJ. NTE seeks to evaluate performance by conducting analyses of existing data for a cohort of over 80 families, assessed four times over 46 weeks using observational measures of parenting practices and … Continue reading Newark Trust for Education Project
The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices describes the experiences and practices of Genesee Intermediate School District: Brides to Success’ (GISD) Team Leads and direct staff serving children and families after substantially redesigning afterschool programming due to the COVID-19 crisis. While the original evaluation plan was to do a (second) round … Continue reading The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices
The Management Practices Self-Assessment (MPSA) is a measurement instrument created to empower Michigan 21st CCLC Project Directors, who manage at least one program site. The MPSA provides Project Directors with the opportunity to check-in with themselves and their team by identifying practices and policies that are well-documented and working well, or that could be updated … Continue reading Management Practices Self-Assessment (MPSA)
Reviewing theory and research on socio-emotional learning (SEL) highlights the importance of a wide range of psychological and behavioral skills, ranging from very specific psychological processes that occur on the order of milliseconds (e.g., updating working memory) to broad patterns of behavior that occur over minutes, days, and months (e.g., teamwork and relationship skills). Attempts … Continue reading The multilevel person in context ~ neuroperson (MPCn) model: Guidance for quality improvement systems (QIS) focused on socio-emotional skill growth and transfer outcomes
In the summer of 2018, the Local Government Association (LGA) in England commissioned the Centre for Youth Impact to produce an outcomes framework to help partners across the English youth sector to develop and agree on mutual aims to support young people in their local areas. The work was in response to LGA’s consultations that … Continue reading Promoting Healthy Development of Young People: Outcomes Framework 2.0
In this study, we used performance data generated by Prime Time Inc. in Palm Beach County and fully pattern-centered methodology to describe the chain of causal effects as a cascade of sequential impacts. We sought to answer two specific questions about implementation and children’s SEL skill growth: What is the impact of QIS exposure on … Continue reading Impact Evaluation for the Palm Beach County Quality Improvement System (QIS) using Fully Pattern-Centered Analytics
Frustration and confusion often occur when practitioners require detailed information about program processes for continuous quality improvement (CQI) while policy-makers require evidence of outcome effects for accountability and funding. Impact studies are often preferred over continuous improvement studies, but they seldom offer useful information to practitioners. Per the conference theme, this situation leads to a … Continue reading Measure Once, Cut Twice: Using Data For Continuous and Impact Evaluation in Education Programs
DOWNLOAD This report exemplifies use of the suite of SEL measures and benchmarks in the American Youth Circus Organizations network. Citation: Smith, C., Roy, L., Peck, S., & Macleod, C. (2017). Evaluation of program quality and social and emotional learning in American Youth Circus Organization social circus programs. Retrieved January 2018 from American Youth Circus … Continue reading Evaluation of Program Quality and Social and Emotional Learning in American Youth Circus Organization Social Circus Programs
DOWNLOAD This paper describes implementation and outcomes for QIS in school-based summer learning programs in multiple cities.
