Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future Planning
Evaluating professional development can assist with designing better programs in the future, yet survey instruments may not always capture the nuances of participant’s experiences. Therefore, in order to develop better survey instruments, the Out-of-School Time Resource Center conducted a series of...
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2006-09-01
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| description | Evaluating professional development can assist with designing better programs in the future, yet survey instruments may not always capture the nuances of participant’s experiences. Therefore, in order to develop better survey instruments, the Out-of-School Time Resource Center conducted a series of five focus groups. Questions pertained to participants’ job-related needs, preferred types of professional development, characteristics of both “good” and “bad” workshops, reasons why new information is not utilized, and recommendations for policymakers/funders. Findings from the focus groups have been used to revise OSTRC pilot surveys, which will be standardized and published as an Evaluation Toolkit that can be used to design and evaluate OST conferences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2396266c1e94f75bb1c5fcabb5699ae2024-02-02T19:44:32ZengClemson University PressJournal of Youth Development2325-40172006-09-01129510010.5195/jyd.2006.390368Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future PlanningJennifer Buher-Kane0Nancy Peter1Stacy Olitsky2Susan Kinnevy3University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaEvaluating professional development can assist with designing better programs in the future, yet survey instruments may not always capture the nuances of participant’s experiences. Therefore, in order to develop better survey instruments, the Out-of-School Time Resource Center conducted a series of five focus groups. Questions pertained to participants’ job-related needs, preferred types of professional development, characteristics of both “good” and “bad” workshops, reasons why new information is not utilized, and recommendations for policymakers/funders. Findings from the focus groups have been used to revise OSTRC pilot surveys, which will be standardized and published as an Evaluation Toolkit that can be used to design and evaluate OST conferences.http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/390professional development evaluationout-of-school timeafterschool focus groupworkshop evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer Buher-Kane Nancy Peter Stacy Olitsky Susan Kinnevy Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future Planning Journal of Youth Development professional development evaluation out-of-school time afterschool focus group workshop evaluation |
| title | Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future Planning |
| title_full | Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future Planning |
| title_fullStr | Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future Planning |
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| title_short | Findings from Five Out-of-School Time Focus Groups: Professional Development Preferences, Experiences and Recommendations for Future Planning |
| title_sort | findings from five out of school time focus groups professional development preferences experiences and recommendations for future planning |
| topic | professional development evaluation out-of-school time afterschool focus group workshop evaluation |
| url | http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/390 |
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