More Than Attendance: The Importance of After‐School Program Quality

Barton J. Hirsch · Megan A. Mekinda · JulieAnn Stawicki

67 citations0/0 files storedAmerican Journal of Community Psychology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Youth Development and Social Support Crime Patterns and Interventions Education and Vocational Training

Abstract

A central theme of the articles featured in this issue is the need to improve the quality of after-school programs. In this commentary, we discuss why student engagement, program characteristics and implementation, staff training, and citywide policy are key considerations in the effort to define and achieve high quality programs for youth.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 67 citations exist upstream.

References

2009Handbook of Adolescent Psychology 1993Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families.1993Development during adolescence: The impact of stage€nvironment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families.1971The culture of the school and the problem of change 2002Community Programs to Promote Youth Development 2004Liberty: Thriving and Civic Engagement among America's Youth 1975Federal Programs Supporting Educational Change 1978Federal Programs Supporting Educational Change, Vol. VIII: Implementing and Sustaining Innovations.

Cited by

2011After-School Centers and Youth Development: Case Studies of Success and Failure 2020Participation in structured STEM‐focused out‐of‐school time programs in secondary school: Linkage to postsecondary STEM aspiration and major 2018Examining Relationships among Choice, Affect, and Engagement in Summer STEM Programs 2019Enhancing Program Quality in a National Sample of After‐school Settings: The Role of Youth–Staff Interactions and Staff/Organizational Functioning

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.