A New Approach to Accountability: Creating Effective Learning Environments for Programs

Autor/in	Surr, Wendy
Titel	A New Approach to Accountability: Creating Effective Learning Environments for Programs
Quelle	In: Afterschool Matters, (2012) 15, S.38-47 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Accountability; Educational Environment; After School Education; After School Programs; Educational Quality; Educational Improvement; Improvement Programs; Program Descriptions; Educational Opportunities; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Organizational Effectiveness; Program Effectiveness; Youth Programs; Performance Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verantwortung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; After-school programs; After school programs; Out of school education; Out-of-school education; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; After school education; Program; Programs; Programme; Programm; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Effizienzsteigerung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Unternehmenserfolg; Jugendsofortprogramm; Leistungsindikator
Abstract	This article describes a new paradigm for accountability that envisions afterschool programs as learning organizations continually engaged in improving quality. Nearly 20 years into the era of results-based accountability, a new generation of afterschool accountability systems is emerging. Rather than aiming to test whether programs have produced desired youth outcomes, an increasing number of afterschool funders and sponsors are shaping more flexible, collaborative, and lower-stakes accountability systems. By designing accountability systems that fully embrace the notion of afterschool programs as learning organizations and by using research from organizational development, education, and youth development to create effective learning environments, funders and sponsors can help programs to improve quality--and therefore, to succeed in their goal of achieving better outcomes for young people. (Contains 6 figures.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Institute on Out-of-School Time. Wellesley Centers for Women, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. Tel: 781-283-2547; Fax: 781-283-3657; e-mail: niost@wellesley.edu; Web site: http://www.niost.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10