Documenting Progress and Demonstrating Results: Evaluating Local Out-of-School Time Programs

This is the third in a series of research briefs entitled "Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation". The brief provides practitioners of local out-of-school (OST) programmes with techniques, tools, and strategies for improving their programmes and tracking their effectiveness over time. It draws on information collected from focus group interviews with representatives of 14 programmes that are involving youth in their evaluation and research efforts. It examines the elements of successful youth involved research projects and offers short profiles of the 14 organisations included in the study.

This brief was a collaboration of the Harvard Family Research Project and the Finance Project.

Free hard copies can be requested from hfrp_pubs@gse.harvard.edu