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Research Connections is supported by grant #90YE0104 from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

			Afterschool evaluation practices in California: Site-level perspectives Erbstein, Nancy, November 2005 Davis: University of California, Davis, Center for Community School Partnerships. An exploration of evaluation practices used by after school programs and a discussion of the evaluation needs of programs to improve service delivery, based on a survey of program coordinators of 271 after school programs funded by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program and the After School Education and Safety (ASES) initiative in California	Reports & Papers
			Afterschool evaluation practices in California: Site-level perspectives [Executive summary] Erbstein, Nancy, November 2005 Davis: University of California, Davis, Center for Community School Partnerships. A summary of an exploration of evaluation practices used by after school programs and a discussion of the evaluation needs of programs to improve service delivery, based on a survey of program coordinators of 271 after school programs funded by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program and the After School Education and Safety (ASES) initiative in California	Executive Summary
			Confirmatory program evaluation: Applications to early childhood interventions Reynolds, Arthur J., 2005 Teachers College Record, 107(10), 2401-2425 A discussion of confirmatory program evaluation as a method for conducting theory driven evaluations, and its role in identifying causal mechanisms of change in early childhood interventions, with examples from the Chicago Longitudinal Study and studies of the Chicago Child-Parent Centers	Reports & Papers
			Democratic evaluation Harvard Family Research Project, 2005 The Evaluation Exchange, 11(3). A description of a theoretical, democratic approach to evaluating child care programs in an attempt to address social equity and inclusion	Other
			Evaluation methodology Harvard Family Research Project, 2005 The Evaluation Exchange, 11(2). A collection of testimonies from child care experts on evaluation methods and the role of theory in child care assessment	Other
			Family outcomes of early intervention and early childhood special education: Issues and considerations Bailey, Don, January 2005 Menlo Park, CA: Early Childhood Outcomes Center. A discussion of the importance of the assessment and consideration of family outcomes in early childhood special education and intervention programs	Other
			From research to policy: In search of an affordable statewide system for rating child care quality Riley, Dave A., 2005 Early Education and Development, 16(4), 493-504 An analysis of rationales for promoting statewide child care quality rating systems identifying quality measures used in states� rating systems, and a description of a research-based plan for a quality rating system in Wisconsin	Reports & Papers
			Improving quality in early childhood education: Tiered reimbursement, quality ratings, and rated licenses Voices for Virginia's Children, 2005 (Issue Brief in Early Childhood). Richmond: Voices for Virginia's Children. Definitions of Tiered Reimbursement Systems (TRS), Quality Rating Systems (QRS), and Rated License Systems (RLS), and recommendations for their use in efforts to improve child care quality in Virginia	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Jennings School District Stars and Heroes evaluation: 2003-2004 school year Jennings School District (Mo.), March 2005 Jennings, MO: Jennings School District. A presentation of a third-year evaluation of a school-based after-school program located in a central city school district outside of St. Louis serving a 90% African American student body, quantitative and qualitative assessment based on multiple data sources including student surveys, student focus groups, teacher and site coordinator interviews, observations, a teacher completed engagement scale about each child in the program, Student Information System (SIS) data, and data from the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP)	Other
			A new guide for evaluating child care quality [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 78-90). New York: Guilford Press Descriptions of two observational tools for evaluating the quality of child care programs, the Observational Record of the Caregiving Environment (ORCE) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Caregiver Language Checklist	Other
			Prepared for kindergarten: What does ''readiness'' mean? Ackerman, Debra J., 2005 New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research. Discussion on the definition of elementary school readiness and initiatives to improve readiness evaluation measures	Fact Sheets & Briefs

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