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Bottoms, Bryndle L.; Luce, Hannah E.; Villanueva, Kristin M.; Herrera, Leonardo – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2022
Freedom School Partners is a six-week summer program that has served the Charlotte, NC area since 2004. The purpose of this report is to present the external evaluation and findings of the six-week program in the summer of 2022. This evaluation is a joint effort between the Centers for Adolescent Literacies (CAL) and the Center for Educational…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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LeMire, Steven D.; Achtenberg, Lindsay; Opp, Dean – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2017
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a summer performing arts (SPA) program using elements of a servant leadership model to assess potential impacts of a SPA program on leadership skills development. High school students enrolled in a SPA program were given both a pre- and post-survey that included leadership questions. There was a growth in…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, High School Students, Summer Programs, Art Education
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Behnke, Andrew O.; Bodenhamer, Aysha; McDonald, Taylor; Robledo, Mayra – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2019
The Juntos Program empowers Latina/o students and their families to gain the knowledge and resources necessary for academic success in high school and college. This is made possible via four interlinking components: Family Engagement; 4-H Clubs; Success Coaching and Mentoring; and a Juntos Summer Academy. Nineteen focus groups with participants in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Hispanic American Students, Student Empowerment, Academic Achievement
Malone, Helen Janc, Ed.; Donahue, Tara, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017
The Information Age Publishing new book series, Current Issues in Out-of-School Time, is designed with a purpose to disseminate original research and promising practices that further the Out-of-School Time (OST) field. This first book sets the foundation on which the series rests upon, by offering an analysis of the progress made since the 2000s,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Bernstein, Hamutal; Martin, Carlos; Eyster, Lauren; Anderson, Theresa; Owen, Stephanie; Martin-Caughey, Amanda – Urban Institute, 2015
The Urban Institute conducted an implementation and participant-outcomes evaluation of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP). ANSEP is a multi-stage initiative designed to prepare and support Alaska Native students from middle school through graduate school to succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Alaska Natives, American Indian Students, STEM Education
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Freeman, Melissa; Preissle, Judith; Havick, Steven – New Directions for Evaluation, 2010
An external evaluation documented what occurred in an inaugural summer camp to teach high school students how to preserve religious freedom by learning about and acting on the history and current state of church-state separation and other first amendment issues. Camp designers hoped to promote religious diversity values and civic engagement in…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Summer Programs, Resident Camp Programs, Religious Factors
HODGES, LEWIS H.; WENRICH, RALPH C. – 1966
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM FOR THE PREPARATION OF PERSONS TO BE EMPLOYED IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING PERSONS IN MICHIGAN WITH LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL AND A BACKGROUND IN VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND THEN PREPARING THEM TO FUNCTION AS ADMINISTRATORS WERE THE…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bibliographies, Internship Programs, Leadership
Jensen, Glenn S. – 1969
A project to improve the leadership competency of personnel responsible for program development and implementation in ABE is presented. The intent of the program planners was to help the ABE administrator discover new patterns of need, to search for new teaching formats and content, and to reassess the relationships which exist in the world of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Educational Planning, Educational Programs
Henderson, Karla A., Comp.; Bialeschki, M. Deborah, Comp. – 1984
Twenty abstracts represent papers on: an agenda for camping research, use of alternative learning environments in an outdoor setting for emotionally disturbed children and youth, effects of specialized camping program on coronary heart disease risk factors in children, efficacy of physical activity programs for overweight pre-adults at specialized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, Anxiety, Autism