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Hartwell and Orr describe and evaluate the Forensic Transition Program, a program in Massachusetts designed to provide support for people with mental illness during re-entry from incarceration.

Implementation of a STEM Summer Enrichment Program in a Low Income Community

Great resource for identifying measures to use within program evaluation in preschool--includes a table of assessment tools, their purposes, target age groups, and target areas

A joint position statement from leading professional orgs in Early Childhood--includes trends and issues as valuable background info, plus recommendations, plus FAQs about program evaluation.

Introducing The Sprout School!

A model to follow in thinking about our program evaluation and research for the museum-based preschool program. This article outlines a series of planned studies, emergent results to date, and highlights collaborative nature of the work. Need to look for follow up publications that provide specific results, conclusions, recommendations.

Museum learning across 4 programs for 4 to 7 year olds--interviews to assess saliency of learning experiences which is an aspect of comparative interest for my CEnR...what's the value added to preschool and museum learning experiences from the museum-based preschool program?

"Public health researchers have advocated CBPR as a means to bring evidence-based public health policies and programs to communities and to enable researchers to conduct community-informed research. Despite these goals, no studies have evaluated whether linkages among agencies involved in the CBPR process have changed as a result of interventions. In our study, we measured network linkages across 14 topics to determine whether linkages among and between CBOs and universities have changed as a result of project activities."

This checklist by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child would have been a really great tool as we were developing our preschool evaluation plan with CMoR/YWCA--still will be a good tool to evaluate the quality of our plan at this point.

Trusted source in early childhood (Zero to Three), useful checklists and terminology for identifying and refining evaluation project.

Parents play an important part in literacy. We need to engage our parents to increase our children's literacy performance.