This book shares insights from out-of-school time professionals on using data for continuous quality improvement. It covers building support for learning and evaluation, engaging young people and caregivers, and securing funder support. Ideal for leadership-level staff looking to enhance their evaluation systems.
Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Key themes of the volume include building support for learning and evaluation within out-of-school time programs, creating and sustaining continuous quality improvement efforts, authentically engaging young people and caregivers in evaluation, and securing funder support for learning and evaluation.
This volume will be particularly useful to leadership-level staff in out-of-school time organizations that are thinking about deepening their own learning and evaluation systems, yet arent sure where to start. Authors share conceptual frameworks that have helped inform their thinking, walk through practical examples of how they use data in out-of-school time, and offer advice to colleagues.
Foreword; Beth Gamse, Julie Spielberger, and Angeline Spain.
Introduction; Christina Russell.
Part I. Setting The Stage: The Value Of Measurement And Evaluation.
Chapter
1. Taking Stock: Investing in Measuring Our Work in Out-of-School
Time; Regino Chįvez.
Chapter
2. What's Your Why? Matching Evaluation Approach to Organizational
Need; Jason Spector.
Chapter
3. Using Data for Learning: A Funder's Perspective; Rebecca M.
Goldberg, Ashleigh L. Halverstadt, and Alex C. Hooker.
Part II. Building Blocks For Evaluation.
Chapter
4. Demystifying Data: Strategies and Tools for Making Data More
Meaningful in OST Programs; Hannah Lantos, Zakia Redd, Brandon Stratford, and
Aasha Joshi.
Chapter
5. Navigating Data Systems Selection: Tools to Ease the Journey;
Betsy Block.
Chapter
6. So What, Now What: A Game-Winning Plan for Capacity Building;
Tasha Johnson and Aasha Joshi.
Chapter
7. From Quantity to Quality: Lessons Learned From an Ongoing
Statewide Initiative; Kim Firth Leonard, Celeste Janssen, and Belle Cantor.
Chapter
8. Putting Data to Work for Young People: Bridging Practice and
Research Through Continuous Improvement; Jessica Donner, Anamarie Auger
Whitaker, Ann Durham, and Lisa Gomi Hui.
Chapter
9. Youth Participation in Evaluation: Lessons From the Past,
Opportunities for the Future; Joseph Luesse and Kim Sabo Flores.
Part III. Developing Systems Of Evaluative Thinking.
Chapter
10. Building Effective Continuous Quality Improvement Systems: The
Need for Evaluative Thinking About Out-of-School Time Program Quality;
Tiffany Berry and Michelle Sloper.
Chapter
11. Building Evaluative Thinking Skills and Capacity Through M3®
(Making Meaning with Multiple Data Sets); Jocelyn Wiedow and Jennifer
Griffin-Wiesner.
Chapter
12. A Reservoir of Insight: Tapping Youth Feedback to Inform
Continuous Learning; Valerie Threlfall.
Chapter
13. How a Frontier State Grew OST Quality From the Ground Up; Linda
Barton, Kathy Schleyer, and Ellen Gannett.
Chapter
14. Beyond Youth Outcomes: Thinking Outside the Logic Model; Bryan
Hall and Brenda McLaughlin.
Part IV. Using Data And Evaluation To Improve Staff Capacity.
Chapter
15. Giving Data a Voice Through Coaching: The Michigan Example; Jamie
Wu, Trevor Davies, Lorraine Thoreson, and Laurie Van Egeren.
Chapter
16. Walk the Path Together: Partnering to Advance Data Use; Miranda
Yates, Stephanie Mui, and Jennifer Nix.
Chapter
17. Using Data Informed Practices to Support the Onboarding and
Retention of Youth Development Professionals; Jaynemarie Enyonam Angbah.
Chapter
18. Epilogue; Corey Newhouse.
Resources.
About the Contributors.
Christina A. Russell, Policy Studies Associates
Corey Newhouse, Public Profit
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