New Briefs: Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation

Posted by on August 13, 2004

[posted from Promising Practices in After School listserv]

The two latest briefs in our “Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation” series are now available on our website.

Brief number 6, “Moving Beyond the Barriers: Attracting and Sustaining Youth Participation in Out-of-School Time Programs,” culls information from several implementation and impact evaluations to develop a set of promising strategies to attract and sustain youth participation in out-of-school time (OST) programs. It is available online at:

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/resources/issuebrief6.html

Brief number 7, “Understanding and Measuring Attendance in Out-of-School Time Programs,” reviews developmental research and out-of-school time program evaluations to examine three indicators of youth attendance in OST programs — intensity, duration, and breadth — and offers a few different models for how youth’s attendance can influence their outcomes. It is available online at:

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/resources/issuebrief7.html

Both can also be ordered in hard copy by emailing us at [email protected].

The next brief in this series — on promoting the quality of OST programs through professional development — will be available in early September. Once it’s available it will be announced through our out-of-school time updates email. You can subscribe to that email at:

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/subscribe.html

I hope you find this information of interest!