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Program Evaluation 4
Program Staff

National Network for Child Care's Connections Newsletter

Assessment Title:

Target: School Age Child Care Program Staff

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 children and adults are in your school age child care (SACC) group on a typical afternoon.

__ Children
__ Adult staff
__ Adult unpaid volunteers
__ Youth volunteers

Q-2. What is the age range of the children served by your program?

Youngest __

Oldest __

Q-3. Including this year, for how many years has your SACC program been operating?

Years Operating __

Q-4. What is the relationship of your program with the Extension Service? (Check all that apply.)

__ We are part of Extension or operated by Extension.

__ We were operated by Extension but now operated independently (e.g. are incorporated, have our own budget, etc.)

__ Extension helped this SACC program get started.

__ We have 4-H Clubs and activities within our SACC program.

__ We have received some training and/or materials from the Extension office.

__ None of the above. (Please explain: )

Q-5. About how many times in the past 12 months have you met with the Extension agent and/or received materials from the Extension office?

Times in past 12 months __

Q-6. 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 children develop interests in new topics or activities
b. Helping children do better in school
c. Helping children develop an interest in reading for recreation
d. Helping shy children become more outgoing
e. Helping children become more skilled at joining in group activities
f. Helping rejected children make new friends
g. Helping children take more responsibility for the planning and the running of the program and its activities
h. Provide one-on-one counseling from the program staff concerning difficulties at home or school
i. Helping children be more willing to follow directions and rules of adults
j. Helping children handle conflicts by talking or negotiating instead of hitting or fighting
k. Helping parents increase their involvement in school

Q-7. 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-8. Is there a specific reason you feel this way?

Q-9. 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-10. Is there a specific reason you feel this way?

Q-11 Most SACC staff can talk about one child they have had the strongest, most positive impact on. Thinking about the past year, write a few words about that child. How did the child change? What did you and your staff and program do that worked? (Use more paper if you like.)

Q-12. Please tell us about the one most frustrating roadblock to success in your program this past year.

Finally, we would like some information about you to help in our statistical analysis.

Q-13. What is your age? __ YEARS.

Q-14. What is your gender? (Circle your response)

1 male
2 female

Q-15. Including this year how many years have you worked in a School Age Child Care program?

YEARS __ MONTHS __

Q-16. How many years in your current school age child care program?

YEARS __ MONTHS __

Q-17. What is the highest level of education you have completed?

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

Q-18. How many semester courses in child/adolescent development or education have you completed?

COURSES __

Q-19. Before working with Extension in this SACC program, how much contact did you have with the Extension Service?

None 1
Slight 2
Moderate 3
A lot 4

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

Program Evaluation 4 Program Staff

Program Evaluation 4
Program Staff