Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development

Academic SuccessMany after-school programs focus on improving academic success. Academic success involves both improved academic outcomes (e.g.,grades, Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) scores, graduation rates, school attendance), as well as improved attitudes aboutschool (e.g., school engagement, class participation, time spent on homework, motivation for learning). Programs that have strongpartnerships with schools may be able to obtain records, such as grades and CSAP scores, directly from schools. These programs shoulduse the tracking forms provided in Appendix VIII. Although the use of school-provided data may be the best measure of academicperformance, programs without access to school data can use this question set to obtain participants’ self-report of changes in academicperformance, as well as other academic-related attitudes and behaviors.ASI requirement: If the academic success domain is selected, all questions in bold (a, e, i and j) are required. Note: Questions in bold onpage 20 also are required.Academic SuccessComing to [this program] has helped me to…YES KIND OF NOT REALLYa. Improve my grades in school ....................................................................... ...................... .............................b. Improve my grade in language arts (reading/writing)................................... ...................... .............................c. Improve my grade in math................................................................................ ...................... .............................d. Improve my grade in science ............................................................................ ...................... .............................e. Do better in school .......................................................................................... ...................... .............................f. Do better in language arts (reading/writing).................................................. ...................... .............................g. Do better in math ............................................................................................... ...................... .............................h. Do better in science............................................................................................ ...................... .............................i. Try harder in school........................................................................................ ...................... .............................j. Spend more time doing my homework ..................................................... ...................... .............................Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development 19