In the summer of 2018, the Local Government Association (LGA) in England commissioned the Centre for Youth Impact to produce an outcomes framework to help partners across the English youth sector to develop and agree on mutual aims to support young people in their local areas. The work was in response to LGA’s consultations that … Continue reading Promoting Healthy Development of Young People: Outcomes Framework 2.0
In this study, we used performance data generated by Prime Time Inc. in Palm Beach County and fully pattern-centered methodology to describe the chain of causal effects as a cascade of sequential impacts. We sought to answer two specific questions about implementation and children’s SEL skill growth: What is the impact of QIS exposure on … Continue reading Impact Evaluation for the Palm Beach County Quality Improvement System (QIS) using Fully Pattern-Centered Analytics
Frustration and confusion often occur when practitioners require detailed information about program processes for continuous quality improvement (CQI) while policy-makers require evidence of outcome effects for accountability and funding. Impact studies are often preferred over continuous improvement studies, but they seldom offer useful information to practitioners. Per the conference theme, this situation leads to a … Continue reading Measure Once, Cut Twice: Using Data For Continuous and Impact Evaluation in Education Programs
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download The Southeastern Michigan Stewardship Coalition (SEMIS) is a high impact and low-cost school reform for adults and students to build their repertoire of ecological stewardship skills – SEL, STEM and civic – and experience agency from the practice of ecological stewardship in … Continue reading SEMIS Coalition for Place-Based Ecological Stewardship: Growing a Movement, Getting Ready for Growth
DOWNLOAD This report exemplifies use of the suite of SEL measures and benchmarks in the American Youth Circus Organizations network. Citation: Smith, C., Roy, L., Peck, S., & Macleod, C. (2017). Evaluation of program quality and social and emotional learning in American Youth Circus Organization social circus programs. Retrieved January 2018 from American Youth Circus … Continue reading Evaluation of Program Quality and Social and Emotional Learning in American Youth Circus Organization Social Circus Programs
DOWNLOAD This paper describes implementation and outcomes for QIS in school-based summer learning programs in multiple cities.
REQUEST ACCESS This paper describes validity of QIS performance measures and longitudinal change over four years in Oklahoma 21st CCLC programs.
DOWNLOAD This technical report describes methodology and findings for (1) best-practice SEL standards, (2) validation of a suite of SEL performance measures for use in QIS, and (3) performance benchmarks for out-of-school time programs focused on building SEL skills with vulnerable children/youth. Citation: Smith, C., McGovern, G., Peck., S.C., Larson, R., Hillaker, B., Roy, L. … Continue reading Preparing youth to thrive: Methodology and findings from the social and emotional learning challenge
DOWNLOAD This paper compares outcomes for struggling students in high quality instructional settings to outcomes for similar students in low quality instructional settings.
DOWNLOAD In this policy commentary, we do some reasoning about how 21st CCLC produces value and discuss the limitations in one particular way of seeing that value – the intent-to-treat impact evaluation design.
