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Child Care Program Evaluation 3

National Network for Child Care's Connections Newsletter

Title: Quality of Child Care. Principals and Teachers. School Age Child Care

Target Audience: Principals and Teachers

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

Contact who has experience using this assessment instrument:
Social Survey Research Unit
University of Idaho
College of Agriculture

Q-1. To begin with, we would like to know how many years the SACC program has been operating in your school.
__ Years

Q-2. How many years have you, personally, been aware of the SACC program at your school?
__ Years

Q-3. How familiar are you with the SACC program in your school?

Not at all familiar 1
Slightly familiar 2
Somewhat familiar 3
Very familiar 4

Q-4. 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
b. Improving students' school attendance
c. Preventing students from being retained in the same grade for another year
d. Keeping students from being placed in special education classes next year
e. Helping students have fewer behavior problems at school
f. Helping students be more cooperative with teachers
g. Helping parents increase their involvement in the school
h. Led to a decrease in vandalism in the school
i. Helped students improve their grades
j. Helping children develop interests in new topics or activities
k. Helping children do better in school
l. Helping children develop an interest in reading for recreation
m. Helping shy children become more outgoing
n. Helping children become more skilled at joining in group activities
o. Helping rejected children make new friends
p. Helping children be more willing to follow directions and rules of adults
q. Helping children handle conflicts by talking or negotiating instead of hitting or fighting

Q-5. In general, how successful do you feel the SACC program in your school has been? (Circle the number of your response.)

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

Q-6. Considering your community as a place to live, do you feel that it has become a worse place to live, stayed the same, or become a better place to live as a result of the SACC program? (Circle the number of your response.)

A Worse place to live 1
It has stayed the same 2
A Better place to live 3

Q-7. In evaluating your knowledge about your community, do you feel it has become worse, stayed the same, or become better as a result of your involvement in the SACC program? (Circle the number of you response)

It has become worse 1
It has stayed the same 2
It has become better 3

Q-8. Perhaps there is a student in your school that has especially benefitted from the SACC program. Thinking about the past year, can you write a few words about that child. How did the child change and do you feel the SACC program played a part in that change? (Use more paper if you like.)

Social Survey Research Unit
University of Idaho
College of Agriculture

Evaluation Tools Page

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