More Than Attendance: The Importance of After-School Program Quality
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Abstract
A central theme of the articles featured in this issue is the need to improve the quality of after-school programs. In this commentary, we discuss why student engagement, program characteristics and implementation, staff training, and citywide policy are key considerations in the effort to define and achieve high quality programs for youth.
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- Dosage is Not Enough
- Participation is More Than Attendance
- Challenges of Defining Program Quality
- Staff Training: Don’t Make the Same Old Mistakes
- Policy Development and Priorities
- References
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- Title
- More Than Attendance: The Importance of After-School Program Quality
- Journal
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American Journal of Community Psychology
Volume 45, Issue 3-4 , pp 447-452 - Cover Date
- 2010-06-01
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10464-010-9310-4
- Print ISSN
- 0091-0562
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2770
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Program quality
- Program implementation
- After-school
- Staff training
- Attendance
- Authors
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Barton J. Hirsch
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- Megan A. Mekinda (1)
- JulieAnn Stawicki (1)
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Barton J. Hirsch
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