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The Technical Assistance and Coaching Support Services (TACSS) Initiative |
In 2009, MDE partnered with the Weikart Center to provide increased professional development offerings for all grantees and intensive training, coaching, and technical assistance (TA) for a subset of referred grantees. The TACSS initiative was developed as a scalable quality improvement intervention. |
1/1/2010 |
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Quality Systems: Lessons from Early Efforts to Disseminate the Youth PQA |
Review of early system-level efforts to build quality improvement and accountability systems using the Youth PQA |
1/1/2007 |
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Quality and accountability in the out-of-school-time sector |
Article describing and offering advice on the appropriate use of the Youth Program Quality Assessment and similar measurement tools. |
4/8/2009 |
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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools, 2nd Edition |
Program quality assessment and improvement continue to be central themes in the after-school and youth development fields. In March 2007 we released the first edition of this report comparing the purpose, history, structure, methodology, content and technical properties of different program observation tools. |
1/12/2009 |
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Inter-rater Reliability on the Youth Program Quality Assessment |
High/Scope Technical Report - Analysis of Youth PQA Inter-rater Reliability - 2007 |
1/1/2007 |
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Full Findings From the Youth PQA Validation Study |
High/Scope Technical Report - Youth PQA Validation Study 2005 |
1/1/2005 |
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Final Report on the Palm Beach Quality Improvement System Pilot: Model Implementation and Program Quality Improvement in 38 After - school Programs |
Evaluation report on the Palm Beach County's Quality Improvement System pilot for out-of-school time programs |
1/15/2008 |
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Evidence of Effectiveness for Training in the HighScope Participatory Learning Approach |
Evidence of Effectiveness for Training in the HighScope Participatory Learning Approach |
11/1/2005 |
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An Overview of the Lansing School District Project |
In August 2008, the Lansing School District contracted with the Weikart Center to develop a one-year intervention that would dramatically improve management capacity, the quality of instruction at the point of service, and ultimately, attendance by high school aged youth. |
1/1/2010 |
