Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development

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The Colorado Trust is a grantmaking foundation dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of the people of Colorado. To learnmore about The Colorado Trust and its grantmaking initiatives, go to www.coloradotrust.org.“The Colorado Trust” is registered as a trademark in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. After-School Initiative’s Toolkit for EvaluatingPositive Youth Development. Copyright © June 2004. The Colorado Trust. All rights reserved.The Colorado Trust is pleased to have organizations or individuals share its materials with others. To request permission to excerpt fromthis publication, in print or electronically, please contact Dr. Nancy B. Csuti, Senior Evaluation Officer, The Colorado Trust, 1600Sherman Street, Denver, CO 80203-1604; fax 303-839-9034; e-mail nancy@coloradotrust.org.Please cite this summary as: The Colorado Trust. After-School Initiative’s Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development. Denver, CO: TheColorado Trust; 2004.The After-School Initiative’sToolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development was developed by The Colorado Trust and NationalResearch Center, Inc.The Colorado Trust1600 Sherman StreetDenver, CO 80203-1604303-837-1200Fax: 303-839-9034www.coloradotrust.orgNational Research Center, Inc.Measuring what matters3005 30th StreetBoulder, CO 80301303-444-7863Fax: 303-444-1145www.n-r-c.come-mail: info@n-r-c.com
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................................................1TOOLKIT BACKGROUND................................................................................................................................................................................1PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE TOOLKIT ..............................................................................................................................................................2BENEFITS OF USING THE TOOLKIT ................................................................................................................................................................4USING THIS TOOLKIT................................................................................................................................................................... 5RECRUITMENT, INCENTIVES AND CONSENT ..................................................................................................................................................5UNDERSTANDING THE RIGHTS OF THE SURVEY PARTICIPANTS.....................................................................................................................6DEVELOPING THE SURVEY............................................................................................................................................................................6DEVELOPING THE SURVEY ADMINISTRATION PROTOCOL .............................................................................................................................8PILOT TESTING THE SURVEY.......................................................................................................................................................................12THE SURVEY ADMINISTRATION ..................................................................................................................................................................13AFTER THE SURVEY ADMINISTRATION.......................................................................................................................................................15SECTION 1: POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DOMAINS................................................................................................16ACADEMIC SUCCESS ...................................................................................................................................................................................19ARTS AND RECREATION..............................................................................................................................................................................21COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.......................................................................................................................................................................22CULTURAL COMPETENCY ...........................................................................................................................................................................23LIFE SKILLS ................................................................................................................................................................................................25POSITIVE CORE VALUES .............................................................................................................................................................................26POSITIVE LIFE CHOICES ..............................................................................................................................................................................27SENSE OF SELF............................................................................................................................................................................................28SECTION 2: PROGRAM QUALITY...............................................................................................................................................29SECTION 3: YOUTH BACKGROUND AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION ...........................................................................33SECTION 4: ALTERNATIVE TO POST-ONLY SURVEY ..........................................................................................................35Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Developmenti
Page 1: THE AFTER-SCHOOL INITIATIVE’STool
Page 5 and 6: IntroductionThe After-School Initia
Page 7 and 8: Mitigation of burden on participant
Page 9 and 10: Using This ToolkitAs part of their
Page 11 and 12: Guarantee anonymity or confidential
Page 13 and 14: • Who is responsible for gatherin
Page 15 and 16: The following is a checklist of tas
Page 17 and 18: The Survey AdministrationThe survey
Page 19 and 20: Problem situations during survey ad
Page 21 and 22: Outcome DomainOutcome IndicatorsAca
Page 23 and 24: Academic SuccessMany after-school p
Page 25 and 26: Arts and RecreationMany youth progr
Page 27 and 28: Cultural CompetencyAs communities a
Page 29 and 30: Life SkillsLife skills are proficie
Page 31 and 32: Positive Life ChoicesAlthough the f
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Page 35 and 36: ASI requirement: All program qualit
Page 37 and 38: Section 3: Youth Background and Pro
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Asentimiento de jovenes para partic
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OutcomeDomainCommunityInvolvementEn
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OutcomeDomainEnglish Post-only Ques
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OutcomeDomainSense of SelfEnglish P
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7) Who will assist the surveyadmini
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ToolkitOutcomeDomainsToolkit Outcom
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ToolkitOutcomeDomainsToolkit Outcom
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Toolkit DomainsToolkit Outcome Indi
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TABLE 3 - Toolkit Outcome Domains L
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ToolkitDomainsToolkit Outcome Indic
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Outcome Domain Advanced Question ac
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Outcome Domain Advanced Question I
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Background Information Advanced Que
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CSAP Tracking FormStudent IDReading
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Attendance Tracking FormStudent IDB
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Appendix IX.Complete Post-only Tool
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[Academic Success - For ASI grantee
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[Life Skills - For ASI grantees cho
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17) What grade are you in? ________
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[Life Skills - For ASI grantees cho
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17) ¿En qué grado estás? _______
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Flowchart for Selecting Post-only o
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Outcome Domain Post-Only Question P
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Outcome Domain Post-Only Question P
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Appendix XI. Complete Pre-Post Tool
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[Positive Core Values - All questio
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[NAME OF ASI PROGRAM/AGENCY]ENCUEST
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[Cultural Competency - For ASI gran
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[Questions a and b are required if
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REFERENCES1 The International Counc
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