2010 – QTurn

Quality at the Point of Service: Profiles of Practice in After-School Settings

April 1, 2010

Charles Smith, Stephen Peck, Anne-Sophie Denault, Juliane Blazevski, and Tom Akiva

This paper uses pattern centered methods to identify three different quality profiles (high, medium, and low) that characterize staff instruction in out-of-school time programs.

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Linking after-school instructional practices to youth engagement: A pattern-centered approach

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Linking after-school instructional practices to youth engagement: A pattern-centered approach

January 1, 2010

Tom Akiva, Lee M. Pearson, Samantha Sugar, Stephen Peck, Charles Smith, and Anne-Sophie Denault

This paper uses pattern centered methods to describe the association between the quality of instruction available and youth’s level of mental engagement with that instruction.

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