This article describes recent research on the Assessment of Program Practices Tool (APT), establishing its strength as an evaluation and tracking tool for OST programs. Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation and Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, the validation was conducted in two phases. The first phase was designed to evaluate the scientific rigor of the tool. Based on the findings from the first phase, the second aimed to inform improvements in the tool and its training. Our testing so far shows that online video-based training needs to be more specialized in order to improve rating reliability for high-stakes users, such as third-party evaluators. (author abstract)
Measuring program quality: Evidence of the scientific validity of the Assessment of Program Practices Tool
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United States
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Massachusetts
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