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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219990903321

Autore

Beckett Megan K

Titolo

Accountability for after-school care : devising standards and measuring adherence to them / / Megan Beckett, Angela Hawken, Alison Jacknowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, Calif., : Rand, Labor & Population, 2001

ISBN

0-8330-3382-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HawkenAngela <1971->

JacknowitzAlison <1972->

Disciplina

362.7/12/0973

Soggetti

School-age child care - Research - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"MR-1411-SSCCP"--P. 4 of cover."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.101-105).

Nota di contenuto

PREFACE; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ACRONYMS; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two IDENTIFYING AFTER-SCHOOL CARE PRACTICES; APPROACHES TO IDENTIFYING PRACTICES; OUR META-ANALYTIC APPROACH; THE PRACTICES; SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW; Chapter Three MEASURING ADHERENCE TO AFTER-SCHOOL CARE PRACTICES; SAMPLE SELECTION AND STUDY PROTOCOL; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; LIMITATION OF OUR SURVEY INSTRUMENTS; DATA COLLECTION PROTOCOL AND SITE VISITS; RATING SCALES; Chapter Four ADHERENCE TO AFTER-SCHOOL CARE PRACTICES BY STONE SOUP PROGRAMS: RESULTS; SUMMARY ANALYSIS

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONSCAVEATS; Chapter Five SUMMARY; Appendix A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED; Appendix B SUMMARY OF STUDIES/REPORTS REVIEWED; Appendix C SURVEY INSTRUMENTS; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Increasing numbers of children are participating in after-school programs, and with more federal and state funding the number of such programs is likely to grow. This growth has been occurring, however, with little guidance as to what program features or practices might be most helpful in nurturing the educational achievement, emotional development, and health of the children involved.  This book helps fill that need for guidance by offering a set of 18 model practices against



which after-school programs can be evaluated. The authors provide ways to score adherence to the criteria, from excell