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Title Hours of opportunity. Vol. 2, The power of data to improve after-school programs citywide / Jennifer Sloan McCombs [and others].

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 90 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-90).
Contents Introduction -- Cities' Development and Use of Out-of-School-Time Management Information Systems -- Ensuring Data Quality -- Providers' Use of Data from Management Information Systems -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Survey Administration, Sampling, Weighting, and Modeling.
Summary High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their OST systems. In many cities that provide financial support for OST, funding is funneled through a variety of youth-serving agencies that lack basic information about the programs they fund. The second in this three-volume series describes how the grantees and three other cities used management information systems to collect and use data on OST programs, including enrollment, attendance, and student outcomes. Cities' use of management information systems to collect and report data on OST programs is relatively new, so the experiences of the case-study cities offer valuable lessons for the field. For example, management information systems are capable of supporting OST system improvement but require careful planning, the use of data from these systems can lead to additional funding and support, the customization of web-based systems encourages their use, providing high-quality training to providers increases the use of the systems, and many providers are overburdened by requirements to use multiple management information systems, so eliminating redundancies and coordinating data requirements can ensure more efficient program provision and reporting.
Note Print version record.
Subject After-school programs -- United States -- Case studies.
School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies.
Garde des enfants d'âge scolaire -- Activités -- États-Unis -- Études de cas.
Enseignement -- Réforme -- États-Unis -- Études de cas.
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
EDUCATION -- General.
After-school programs
School improvement programs
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies
Added Author McCombs, Jennifer Sloan, 1970-
Orr, Nate.
Bodilly, Susan J.
Naftel, Scott, 1952-
Constant, Louay.
Scherer, Ethan.
Gershwin, Daniel.
Rand Education (Institute)
Rand Corporation.
Wallace Foundation.
Added Title Power of data to improve after-school programs citywide
Other Form: Print version: Hours of opportunity Volume 2, The power of data to improve after-school programs citywide. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010 9780833050496 (OCoLC)693751450
ISBN 9780833051028 (electronic bk.)
0833051024 (electronic bk.)
9780833050496
0833050494
Report No. RAND/MG-1037/1-WF
Standard No. DEBBG BV043143795
DEBSZ 421634111
GBVCP 1008655473
AU@ 000054177818

 
    
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