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.

Quality in the Out-of-School Time Sector: Insights from the Youth PQA Validation Study

March 26, 2006
Charles Smith, Tom Akiva, and Brenda Henry

Design theory and formative evidence to describe setting dynamics at two distinct levels, (1) the organization-level where professional learning communities are formed and (2) point-of-service level (e.g., classrooms) where professional staff and learners meet.