Resources for expanded learning professionals

By School's Out Washington

A quick summary of the Youth Program Quality Assessment (YPQA), which provides the foundation for the Quality-to-Outcomes model.This resource is part of YDEKC’s Measurement Toolkit. For a more deta...

By School's Out Washington

This tip sheet summarizes ways of analyzing and reporting quantitative data. Covers general principles, basic descriptive statistics, and basic charts and graphs.

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Whether you are reporting on community needs and assets, youth program participation, or youth and family outcomes, race is likely to be a factor that is relevant to the story you are telling. It i...

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Communication of evaluation findings with both internal and external audiences is critically important. Different audiences have different needs when it comes to data. Think about who needs to know...

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This protocol is designed to help program staff work backward from data on youth outcomes to underlying root causes. It uses a 5 whys method, and then moves on to identifying which root cause is mo...

By School's Out Washington

Virtually all programs track participant attendance, though methods vary according to program needs. Our Excel workbook provides a simple attendance tracker that tabulates basic attendance statisti...