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The Coalition has compiled the following list of resources for afterschool program assessment and evaluation to support your high-quality STEM offerings.
In 2009, the Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR), a Harvard University-McLean Hospital team led by Dr. Gil Noam, developed a searchable database of assessment tools for evaluating program quality and outcomes. This resource is designed to help practitioners, evaluators, researchers and policymakers select instruments to assess science learning and child outcomes in out-of-school programs is now available at PEAR’s Assessment Tools in Informal Science (ATIS) website.
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AWE, the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project, provides assessment tools for people involved in K-16 formal and informal educational outreach activities. AWE assessment tools provide researchers and evaluators with high quality data and the possibility of meta-data based on comparisons of responses to consistent quantitative surveys from a variety of organizations or activities. All products are available upon completing a brief, free registration.
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HFRP has resources to help stakeholders develop and evaluate strategies to promote the well being of children, youth, families, and their communities. Their website includes a searchable database of research studies and evaluations of out-of-school time programs and initiatives, as well as The Evaluation Exchange, a periodical that contains new lessons and emerging strategies for evaluating programs and policies, particularly those focused on children, families, and communities.
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The Out-of-School Time Resource Center (OSTRC) Survey Toolkit is a compilation of resources and research-based surveys to evaluate out-of-school time (OST) professional development (PD) workshops and conferences. In addition to providing resources to create surveys, the Toolkit contains research-based surveys designed, tested, and used by the OSTRC. The surveys may be either customized in collaboration with the OSTRC, or used as is, to evaluate OST professional development workshops and conferences.
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Published by the National Science Foundation, this document may include more detail than is valuable for a single after-school program. However, it does provide valuable guidance in preparing evaluation.
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This is a growing online community that strives to support knowledge-sharing, collaboration and innovation among diverse professionals in the field of informal science education and learning. The site is evolving from its roots as an online repository of information about research and evaluation in informal learning into a knowledge network that is built around people, projects and ideas.
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