NNCC

Child Care Program Evaluation 2
School Age Child Care

National Network for Child Care's Connections Newsletter

Assessment Instrument title: Quality of Child Care. Parents. School Age Child Care.

Target Audience: Parents

Comments: A survey to evaluate the quality of your school age child care program.

Contact:
Social Survey Research Unit
University of Idaho
College of Agriculture

Q-1. How many years have you participated in this 4-H child care program?

NUMBER OF YEARS ___

Q-2. How many children have you had involved in this 4-H child care program?

NUMBER OF CHILDREN ___

Q-3. In general, how satisfied have you and your children been with this 4-H child care program? (Circle the number of your response).

	Very Satisfied	Somewhat Satisfied	Somewhat Dissatisfied	Very Dissatisfied
Parents (you)	1	2	3	4
Children	1	2	3	4

Q-4. Please rate the following as they relate to your child(ren)'s participation in this 4-H child care program. (Circle the number of your response).

	Poor	Fair	Good	Excellent
Health/safety conditions	1	2	3	4
Quality of educational activities	1	2	3	4
Quality of recreational activities	1	2	3	4
Convenience of location	1	2	3	4
Hours of operation	1	2	3	4
Transportation	1	2	3	4

Q-5. Compared to before your involvement in this School Age Child Care (SACC) program how satisfied have you been with each of the following areas since you child(ren)'s involvement in this program? (Circle the number of your response).

	More Satisfied Before	No Difference	More Satisfied Since
A. Your ability to concentrate	1	2	3
B. The volume of work	1	2	3
C. Increased interruptions	1	2	3
D. Increased errors	1	2	3
E. Your involvement in the school	1	2	3
F. Your knowledge of the community	1	2	3
G. Your communication with school personnel	1	2	3
H. Others (specify)	1	2	3

Q-6. While your child(ren) were involved in this program, how often during the school year did you experience each of the following due to child care arrangements. (Circle the number of your response for each item)

	None	1-3 Times	4-6 Times	6+ Times
A. Late for work	1	2	3	4
B. Quit a job	1	2	3	4
C. Left work early	1	2	3	4
D. Absent from work	1	2	3	4
E. Turned down over-time work	1	2	3	4

Q-7. How would you rate the cost of your child care arrangements in this 4-H child care program? (Circle the number of your response).
1. VERY EXPENSIVE
2. SOMEWHAT EXPENSIVE
3. AFFORDABLE
4. VERY AFFORDABLE

Q-8. We would like you to compare several areas of your family life before you were in the SACC program with the time since your child(ren) have been in this program. Please indicate whether the situation is WORSE, THE SAME, or BETTER than it was before this program. (Circle the number of your response).

	Worse than Before	The Same as Before	Better than Before
A. Your health	1	2	3
B. Health of other family members	1	2	3
C. Family finances	1	2	3
D. Child care	1	2	3
E. Relationship with spouse	1	2	3
F. Relationship with children	1	2	3
G. Your community as a place to live	1	2	3
H. Your involvement in your child(ren)'s education	1	2	3

Q-9. Please indicate how successful you feel the SACC program was in each of the following areas. (Circle the number of your response to each area. NA=does not apply to you or your family.)

How Successful?

	Not	Slightly	Somewhat	Very	NA
a. Helping students complete more or better quality home-work assignments	1	2	3	4	5
b. Improving students' school attendance	1	2	3	4	5
c. Preventing students from being retained in the same grade for another year	1	2	3	4	5
d. Keeping students from being placed in special education classes next year	1	2	3	4	5
e. Helping students have fewer behavior problems at school	1	2	3	4	5
f. Helping students be more cooperative with teachers	1	2	3	4	5

How Successful?

	Not	Slightly	Somewhat	Very	NA
g. Helping parents increase their involvement in the school	1	2	3	4	5
h. Led to a decrease in vandalism in the school	1	2	3	4	5
i. Helped students improve their grades	1	2	3	4	5
j. Helping children develop interests in new topics or activities	1	2	3	4	5
k. Helping children do better in school	1	2	3	4	5
l. Helping children develop an interest in reading for recreation	1	2	3	4	5
m. Helping shy children become more outgoing	1	2	3	4	5
n. Helping children become more skilled at joining in group activities	1	2	3	4	5
o. Helping rejected children make new friends	1	2	3	4	5
p. Helping children be more willing to follow directions and rules of adults	1	2	3	4	5
q. Helping children handle conflicts by talking or negotiating instead of hitting or fighting	1	2	3	4	5

Q-10. In general, how successful do you feel the SACC program in your school has been? (Circle the number of your response.)

1. Not successful
2. Slightly successful
3. Somewhat successful
4. Very successful

Finally, we would like some information for statistical purposes.

Q-11. What is your gender? (Circle your response)

1 female
2 male

Q-12. What is your age? (Circle the number of your response)

1 Less than 20 years
2 21--30 years
3 31-40 years
4 41--50 years
5 51 or more years

Q-13. What is your household structure? (Circle the number of your response)

1 Single parent
2 both parents in home
3 Step parent
4 Multiple family home (shared with friend or relative)
5 Other

Q-14. What is the highest level of education of you and your spouse/partner? (Circle the number of your response in each column)

	Yourself	Spouse
Less than high school graduate	1	1
High school graduate	2	2
Some college or vocational school	3	3
College graduate	4	4
Advanced college degree	5	5

Q-15. Please indicate how many children you have in each of the following grade levels living in your home.

Number of Children

___ PRE-SCHOOL
___ KINDERGARTEN
___ GRADE 1
___ GRADE 2
___ GRADE 3
___ GRADE 4
___ GRADE 5
___ GRADE 6
___ JUNIOR HIGH
___ HIGH SCHOOL

Q-16. What is your ethnic background? (Circle the number of your response)

1 American Indian
2 Asian
3 Hispanic
4 African American
5 Caucasian
6 Other (Please specify )

Q-17. Please indicate the employment status of those adults living in your home. (Circle the number of your response)

Employment status outside home

	Full-time	Part-time	Not Employed
Female provider	1	2	3
Male provider	1	2	3
Other providers	1	2	3

Q-18. What was your total family income before taxes in 1991? (Circle the number of your response)

1 Less than $10,000
2 $10,000--$19,999
3 $20,000--$29,000
4 $30,000--$39,000
5 $40,000--$49,000
6 $50,000--$74,999
7 $75,000 or more

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your school age child care needs?

YOUR COMMENTS:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION

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DOCUMENT REVIEW:: Level 3 - National Peer Review
ENTRY DATE:: April 1998

Child Care Program Evaluation 2 School Age Child Care

Child Care Program Evaluation 2
School Age Child Care