Focus Groups: 4-H and Youth Development: Tipsheet #29, University Park, PA: Penn State Cooperative Extension...This document focuses on programming issues to evaluate related to youth development programs
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Poster 69: Measuring Learning in Youth Development Programs Using Personal Meaning Maps Presenter(s): Amy Grack Nelson, Science Museum of Minnesota, agnelson@smm.org Gayra Ostgaard, Science Museum of Minnesota, gostgaard@smm.org Abstract: Many youth development programs have content-related outcomes
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For this reason, measuring 21st century skills systematically and accurately has become a "hot-topic" as evaluators try to discover new ways to capture youth development, such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and communication. Yet, capturing such intangible skills is difficult to do and no widely accepted assessment currently exists to capture this type of youth development in programs. Is it possible to measure 21st century skills and other types of intangible youth development skills? If so, can it be reliable and yield valid evidence of what youth are capable of in this regard?
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Assisting afterschool youth development programs to utilize evaluation to improve program quality and drive decision making through funding technology, developing shared metrics, and sharing findings in a peer learning environment
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We draw on our experiences conducting a USAID-funded meta-review on how positive youth development (PYD) approaches are being implemented across sectors in low and middle-income countries, and understanding what the evidence says about their effectiveness
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We will share some validated and accessible tools to measure youth development outcomes such as problem solving confidence, teamwork, and perceived competence
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the Character Assessment for School Age Children - CASAC) based on the six pillars of character (Josephson Institute, 2009). Many youth development and character education programs utilize some if not all of the pillars of character explicitly or implicitly (e.g
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The method is exemplified with the Youth Action Research for Prevention (YARP) project, a risk prevention youth development program for low-income inner city youth (average age 15.3 years) in Hartford, Connecticut
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This panel will present four case studies illustrating diverse approaches to measuring youth development outcomes. Ned Lazarus will present research examining the long-term effects of the Seeds of Peace program for Israeli and Palestinian youth
Measuring Results International Youth Leadership Interventions.pdf
Authentic youth voice in program assessment and planning is recognized as an effective practice that positively impacts youth, adults, and organizations. However, initiating and sustaining youth engagement in evaluation and planning is challenging for many organizations. In this session we...
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