Understanding Youth Social Settings

Does the length of time/frequency of classroom observations impact the reliability and validity of the CLASS measurement system? How stable are variance estimates in a G-Study, and do they produce replicable results in a D-Study?

The Afterschool Alliance will continue their work on engaging key stakeholders as part of its campaign to increase the quality of after-school programs for all children.

Raudenbush and Bloom will continue to develop the field’s ability to conduct more rigorous and cost-effective intervention and measurement studies. They will also advance methods for determining whether intervention impacts on youth operate through their effects on youth settings ...

Can a simple, low-cost intervention increase the number of low-income high school students taking the necessary steps to go to college?

Funds were provided for a paper on the attributes of good learning experiences for young people, ages 13 to 18.

How do adolescents’ engagement in youth programs and their interactions with program leaders and parents contribute to their development of self-direction?

What accounts for the success of high schools that have positive academic outcomes for urban, low-income Latino students?

Investigators will prepare the Promising Practices Rating System (PPRS), an observational measure of process quality in after-school programs developed in our earlier research, so that it can be used more broadly for research and program development purposes.

Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S., but they are significantly underrepresented in higher education.