Assessment & Evaluation
Elev8 NM Extended Learning Self Assessment Toolkit
This tool is free and can be use for both self assessment and observation. The tool was designed by Elev8 NM in partnership with the New York State Afterschool Network with the New Mexico context in mind. The tool is appropriate for programs serving grades K-12 and is build around quality elements rather than program content. If you are interested in training in the self assessment process please contact NMASA.
Logic Model Toolkit (Harvard Family Institute):
Logic models are a concise way to show how a program is designed and will make a difference for a program's participants and community. On one sheet of paper, a logic model summarizes the key elements of your program, reveals the rationale behind your approach, articulates your intended outcomes and how they can be measured, and shows the cause-and-effect relationships between your program and its intended outcomes.
Provided by the Harvard Family Research Institute this easy to follow Logic Model Toolkit will help you develop a Logic Model for your program. http://www.hfrp.org/content/download/1080/48583/file/learning_logic_models_ost.pdf
A Practitioners Guide: Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs (SEDL National Center For Quality Afterschool:
This Guide is intended to share the insights of SEDL’s National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning (the National Partnership) as well as information about both the academic and the organizational and management practices that successful afterschool programs use. The tool is organized into the following four focus areas:
- program organization
- academic programming practices
- supportive relationships in afterschool
- achieving program outcomes
Within each focus area, we describe the key practices of successful programs. In addition, we provide a Quality-O-Meter tool to help you reflect on your practices and a Planning for Action tool to help you document plans for implementing practices to increase your program’s quality.
http://www.sedl.org/cgi-bin/pdfexit.cgi?url=http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/practitioners_guide_to_afterschool_programs.pdf
Exemplary Practices Guide (Quality Self Assessment Tool)
The Center for Collaborative Solutions (CCS) and the Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD) 2004-created self-assessment tool
http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/node/605#attachments
National Youth Employment Coalition: PEPNet, the Promising and Effective Practices Network, is a system for enhancing the quality of programs that link young people (ages 12 to 25) to work and education to promote a successful transition to adulthood.
- PEPNet Quality Self Assessment (pdf): http://www.ctafterschoolnetwork.org/PDF%20Files/PEPNet_Quality_Self_Assessment.pdf
- Register for free online access to all the PEPNet evaluation and assessment tools at http://www.nyec.org/page.cfm?pageID=112
Global Learning Self Assessment Tool from the Asia Society. Build a Better Global Afterschool Program!
The Global Learning in Afterschool Self-Assessment Tool serves as a guide for programs that wish to bolster their program design, environment, activities, and policies to build global competence in youth. It can be used for guiding preliminary discussions on global learning in afterschool as much as it can be used as a measurement on progress to date.
California Afterschool Network quality (Program Quality Self Assessment Tool)
QSA Tool: http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/files/QSATool.pdf
QSA Users Guide: http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/files/QSAUsersGuide.pdf
QSA Training Presentation: http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/files/QSATRAINING-10-14-09.ppt
Spanish QSA: http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/files/SpanishQSAWeb.pdf
California Afterschool Network Quality Committee: Elements of a Quality Program
The California Afterschool Network Quality Committee (http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/quality_comm) comprehensive, research-based list of elements of a quality program.
http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/node/607#attachments
Team-Up For Youth Quality Self Assessment Tool for Sports Programs
Team-Up for Youth Recently released a new Quality Self-Assessment Tool for Sports Programs. This tool, modeled after the California Afterschool Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool (QSA) can be utilized as a stand-alone sports program assessment tool, or as a supplement to the California QSA Tool. The tool consists of 29 indicators focusing on strong program design, skilled and caring coaches, equity and inclusion, as well as youth development, educational, and health outcomes.
http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/node/8307#attachments
North Carolina Center for Afterschool Programs
http://www.nccap.net/documents/Standards%20Tool.pdf
A Crosswalk Between the LIA Learning Principles and Afterschool Quality Measurement Tools
A Crosswalk Between the LIA Learning Principles and Afterschool Quality Measurement Tools By Sam Piha
During the roll out of the Learning in Afterschool project, several afterschool leaders asked how the Learning in Afterschool learning principles correspond to afterschool quality measurement tools that are currently being used in the field. In response, we offer this paper, which identifies the overlap between the learning principles promoted by the Learning in Afterschool project with six program quality measurement tools.
Through this comparison, authors Sam Piha and Corey Newhouse establish the strong relationship between the Learning in Afterschool learning principles and what you would expect to see in a quality afterschool program. This paper identifies which learning principles are most aligned with program quality measurement tools and which seem to be absent from the quality equation. http://www.learninginafterschool.org/documents/A%20Crosswalk%20Between%20the%20Learning%20in
%20Afterschool%20Learning%20Principles%20and %20Afterschool%20Quality%20Measurement%20Tools.pdf
Coalition for Science Afterschool (afterschoolscience.org)
Harvard-McLean Hospital program, now has a searchable database of assessment tools for informal science, especially in museums, schools, after school and summer programs. ATIS - Assessment Tools in Informal Science is a resource designed to help practitioners, evaluators, researchers and policy makers select appropriate tools to assess the quality of science learning and child outcomes especially in out-of-school time programs.
Assessment Tools in Informal Science: Find the right assessment tool to measure performance of informal and out-of-school science, technology, engineering and math programs.
http://www.pearweb.org/atis/tools/browse?assessment=true
The Coalition has also compiled a list of staff development resources that our members have found useful in increasing the quality and effectiveness of their programs:
http://www.afterschoolscience.org/resources/staff_development/development-resources.php
Out-of-School Time Resource Center
The Out-of-School Time Resource Center (OSTRC) Survey Toolkit is a compilation of resources and research-based surveys to evaluate out-of-school time (OST) professional development (PD) workshops and conferences. In addition to providing resources to create surveys, the Toolkit contains research-based surveys designed, tested, and used by the OSTRC. The surveys may be either customized in collaboration with the OSTRC, or used as is, to evaluate OST professional development workshops and conferences.
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/resources/prodeveval/index.html
Harvard Family Research Project
HFRP has resources to help stakeholders develop and evaluate strategies to promote the well being of children, youth, families, and their communities. Their website includes a searchable database of research studies and evaluations of out-of-school time programs and initiatives, as well as The Evaluation Exchange, a periodical that contains new lessons and emerging strategies for evaluating programs and policies, particularly those focused on children, families, and communities.
http://www.hfrp.org/
OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME DATABASE The Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database is a comprehensive collection of profiles written by HFRP staff of OST program evaluations. http://www.hfrp.org/out-of-school-time/ost-database-bibliography/database
The SEDL National Center for Quality Afterschool: Helping local practitioners and state education agencies develop high-quality and balanced programs
http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/resources/toolkit.html
Connecticut After School Network
CT Best Practices Guidelines for Afterschool Programs
http://www.ctafterschoolnetwork.org/resources/documents/BestPracticeGuidelinesforAfterSchoolPrograms_FINAL_
formatted_version1.2.pdf
CT Self Assessment Tool
http://www.ctafterschoolnetwork.org/downloads/pdf_files/Self-AssessmentTool_FINAL.pdf
