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Quality does matter and directly affects the development of youth. View the latest quality studies and learn how to assess and increase the quality of your program. Print a one page summary on Program Quality courses
Continuous Quality Improvement in Afterschool Settings: Impact findings from the Youth Program Quality Intervention Study
This study, funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation, evaluates the Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI), a data-driven continuous improvement model for afterschool systems. Using a rigorous, experimental design, the research finds that the YPQI produces a cascade of positive effects, resulting in improved program quality at the point of service. 2012
Preliminary findings from the Minnesota 4-H Quality Improvement Study (1.25M PDF)
Deborah Moore, Samantha Grant, Colleen McLaughlin, Kate Walker and Brenda Shafer
This preliminary report reviews a model currently being field tested using the YPQA tool and innovative data collection methodologies, which use 4-H youth and adult volunteers for assessing and improving youth program quality. 2011
Hours of opportunity
Volume I, Lessons from Five Cities (1,594 K PDF)
Volume II, The Power of Data (874 K PDF)
Volume III, Profiles of Five Cities (1650 K PDF)
Susan J. Bodilly, Jennifer Sloan McCombs et al.
This three-volume report examines Wallace-supported efforts in five cities to build systems to improve the quality and accessibility of after-school, summer and other out-of-school time (OST) programs. 2010
Once we know it, we can grow it
(710 K PDF)
Joyce Walker, Celia Gran, Deborah Moore
A white paper on how quality matters in multiple dimensions of nonformal learning in the nonschool hours. 2009
Measuring youth program quality: A guide to youth assessment tools
N. Yohalem, A. Wilson-Ahlstrom, S. Fischer and M. Shinn
A guide designed to compare the purpose, structure, content and technical properties of several youth program quality assessment tools. 2007
Building an effective after-school program (275 K PDF)
HighScope Youth
An article on point-of-service quality matters where most young people feel safe, want to show up, and genuine learning occurs. 2007
Program quality indicators
(39 K PDF)
M. R. Mueller, et. al.
Journal article providing historical perspective on measures of youth development program quality. 1990
Center for Youth Program Quality
The core mission of the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality is to position point of service quality as a powerful public idea that drives the out-of-school time field towards higher levels of understanding, expectation, and action about the quality of experiences available to youth.
Keys to Quality Youth Development
This guide is a working tool to stimulate, challenge, and encourage youth and adults as they work together to plan, conduct, and evaluate quality experiences. 2005
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