Understanding the "How" of Quality Improvement: Lessons from the Rhode Island Program Quality Intervention

Autor/inn/en	Devaney, Elizabeth; Smith, Charles; Wong, Kenneth
Titel	Understanding the "How" of Quality Improvement: Lessons from the Rhode Island Program Quality Intervention
Quelle	In: Afterschool Matters, (2012) 16, S.1-10 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Administrators; Educational Quality; Total Quality Management; After School Programs; Individual Development; Program Evaluation; Personnel Selection; Employees; Adolescents; Intervention; Rhode Island + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Quality management; Qualitätsmanagement; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Individuelle Entwicklung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Over the past 10 years, afterschool and youth development programming has moved from providing childcare for working parents to being an integral component of the learning day, supporting the academic, social, and emotional development of young people. An important part of that transition has been a growing emphasis on improving program quality. Many communities around the country have begun to create site-level continuous improvement models. Aligned performance measures help program administrators evaluate the quality of young people's experience and give them a framework for improvement. The authors' study looks at how participation in a continuous quality improvement initiative produces higher-quality practice in Rhode Island's afterschool community by fostering change in program management practices. Among other findings, the authors discovered that quality improvement begins with program managers, who then lead the process of change. (Contains 1 figure and 1 note.) (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