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Science Action Club is an afterschool program for middle school youth at the California Academy of Sciences where students explore the local environment and document their discoveries to better understand and protect our planet. In this selection of evaluation data from the 2014-2015 school year, participants demonstrated gains along three major categories of youth outcomes—interest in STEM, capacity to engage in STEM, and finding value in STEM.
Science Minors Clubs is an outreach initiative of the Museum of Science and Industry aimed at increasing interest in science in underserved neighborhoods by engaging students in places where they already spend their time after school, such as community-based organizations and schools. In this selection of evaluation data from the 2013-2014 school year, participants demonstrated gains along three major categories of youth outcomes—interest in STEM, capacity to engage in STEM, and finding value in STEM.
SHINE (Schools & Homes in Education) is a comprehensive afterschool program that provides academic and social support to youth in a primarily rural region of Pennsylvania. SHINE offers STEM throughout the grades, with the intention of building a STEM pipeline from kindergarten to career. In this selection of evaluation data from the 2013-2014 school year, participants demonstrated gains along three major categories of youth outcomes—interest in STEM, capacity to engage in STEM, and finding value in STEM.
Techbridge offers afterschool and summer programs with hands-on projects and career exploration to inspire girls in STEM. In this selection of evaluation data from the 2012-2013 school year, participants demonstrated gains along three major categories of youth outcomes—interest in STEM, capacity to engage in STEM, and finding value in STEM.
This evaluation found that during the 2014-15 school year, students participating in Baltimore Community Schools’ out-of-school time programs saw improvements in their school day attendance and a significant decrease in being chronically absent from school. However, no effect was found on students’ reading or math Partnership Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) scores.
This evaluation examines if during the summer of 2016, the Young Audiences Summer Arts and Learning Academy’s (YA Academy) program goals were met in the following areas: program attendance, improvement in math and writing skills, growth in social-emotional development, student enjoyment of the program, and parent satisfaction. Students who had high levels of participation in YA Academy saw gains in their math and writing skills and knowledge, as well as improvements in their social-emotional growth. Overall, this evaluation found that YA Academy was able to meet the majority of the goals they had set for summer 2016, meeting or exceeding their goals set for academic achievement in math and writing, students’ social-emotional growth, and parent satisfaction with the program.
This statewide evaluation of Wyoming’s 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) programs during the 2014-2015 school year finds that students who attended programming thrived academically and socially. Nearly 8 in 10 (77 percent) of regular attendees showed growth in math scores in either the “At Grade” or “Above Grade” categories, and 83 percent improved in language arts in the same levels from fall to spring of the 2014-15 school year.
A statewide evaluation of Alabama’s 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) programs during the 2014-2015 school year examined outcomes related to participants’ academic performance, attendance, and classroom behavior. The evaluation found that based on grades and teacher surveys, students attending Alabama’s 21st CCLC programs for at least 30 days saw academic gains. For instance, 46 percent of students improved their grade in reading and 42 percent improved their math grade. Additionally, according to teacher surveys, almost all students who regularly attended 21st CCLC programs improved, maintained, or did not need to improve their class participation, homework completion, regular attendance, and motivation to learn. Keywords: Statewide Rural Urban Suburban Title 1 Eligible Academics Attendance & Behavior SEL
A statewide evaluation of Missouri’s 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) programs during the 2015-16 school year examined outcomes related to participants’ academic performance, engagement, and behavior. The evaluation found that almost all 21st CCLC sites reported that at least half of their students maintained or improved their reading/communication arts, math, and science grades. Additionally, a majority of sites reported that at least 70 percent of their students reported a “medium to high level” of reading efficacy and math efficacy, and 56 percent of sites reported that at least 70 percent of their students reported a “medium to high level of interest and engagement in STEM.” Students in the programs also reported strong personal and social skills and a commitment to learning.
A statewide evaluation of Colorado’s 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) programs during the 2014-15 school year found positive gains related to student participants’ academic performance, engagement in school, and school-day behavior. Teachers reported that among students regularly attending the program and who were in need of improvement, a strong majority improved their academic performance (76.4 percent), class participation (71.8 percent), classroom attentiveness (68.9 percent), homework completion (68 percent), motivation to learn (66.5 percent), relationships with their peers (62 percent), and behavior in class (63.7 percent). The evaluation also included results from the 2013-14 school year and showed that students in both academic school years showed similar gains.
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