Measuring Afterschool Program Quality Using Setting-Level Observational Approaches

CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN AFTERSCHOOL SETTINGS: Impact findings from the Youth Program Quality Intervention study

Implementing and Measuring the Level of Laboratory Service Integration in a Program Setting in Nigeria

BACKGROUND The surge of donor funds to fight HIV&AIDS epidemic inadvertently resulted in the setup of laboratories as parallel structures to rapidly respond to the identified need. However these parallel structures are a threat to the existing fragile laboratory systems. Laboratory service integration is critical to remedy this situation. This paper describes an approach to quantitatively measu...

Measuring Unsafe Pedestrian Behavior Using Observational Data

Florida has a severe problem with pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities. Recent trends show that Florida’s pedestrian fatality rate is almost double the national average. Traditional safety programs rely on crash data to develop safety campaigns or countermeasures to increase safety. Since crash data are not readily available and a long time has to pass before meaningful data is collected, a “ris...

Approaches to Measuring Implementation Fidelity in School-based Program Evaluations

This article focuses on issues related to implementing school-based social and character development programs in the context of a large multiprogram evaluation study funded by the Institute of Education Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Implementation analysis is a relatively new but important research area. The first section describes why this analysis is especially ...

Afterschool program participation, youth physical fitness, and overweight.

BACKGROUND Fighting childhood obesity has become a key policy focus. The role of community-based interventions to promote physical activity is an important part of an overall strategy to increase physical activity for youth. PURPOSE This study examines whether community-based afterschool physical activity programs lead to improved youth fitness and lower obesity rates. METHODS Individually ...