Resource Spotlight (Search Archive)
Afterschool Evaluation 101: How to Evaluate an Expanded Learning Program
Harris, E. (2011, December)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project
This “how-to guide for conducting an evaluation” is “designed to help out-of-school time (OST) program directors who have little or no evaluation experience develop an evaluation strategy. The guide will walk you through the early planning stages, help you select the evaluation design and data collection methods that are best suited to your program, and help you analyze the data and present the results.”
State Spotlight (Search Archive)
Annotated List of Extended Learning Time Research and Tools
Minnesota Department of Education. (n.d. [webpage])
Roseville, MN: Author
The Minnesota Department of Education’s Office of Turnaround Schools provides a web page with links to resources for guiding efforts to extend learning time. In addition to a toolkit, the web page links to documents on the research base, promising practices, structuring out-of-school time, and on the challenges of implementing the extended time programs in rural areas.
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