AfteSchool Success Academic Enrichment Strategies with Urban Youth | 601.34 KB
Title: AfteSchool Success Academic Enrichment Strategies with Urban Youth
Author: Bouie, Anne
Category: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Educational Psychology, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, Public Health, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
Language: English | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0807747459
Description:
The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews the importance of after-school programs for PYD and discusses key components of effective after-school programs. It also discusses issues related to the evaluation and measurement of quality in after-school programs. In addition, the brief presents suggestions for how researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can move the field forward and maximize the potential of after-school time and programs for promoting positive youth development for children and adolescents.
Topics featured in this brief include:
- The history of the relationship between after-school programs and positive youth development.
- Specific features of programs that are important for advancing positive youth development.
- Issues in and approaches to measuring quality in after-school programs.
- The Quality, Engagement, Skills, Transfer (QuEST) model and its use for measuring effective after-school programs.
- A case study evaluation of the Girls on the Run program.
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