Evaluation 2020

Session ID 2184: Lighting the Lamp: Including the Voice of Younger Participants in Afterschool Program Planning 

10-20-2020 20:38

How do you provide opportunities for elementary-age participants to have a voice in afterschool program planning?  While you can survey participants and conduct focus groups to discuss the results, it can be challenging to gather survey results with younger participants with limited reading skills.  Often, we end up gathering data from the older participants to use to inform program practice, which may not necessarily represent the younger participants who did not have a chance to use their voice.  This poster presents how one not-for-profit piloted a simplified survey to seek out the voice of these younger participants in afterschool programs.  The poster also includes a link to a jamboard to open up discussion around challenges in engaging younger participants in evaluations and to brainstorm solutions that could be tried.

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Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, October 2020