Posts Tagged: 4-H

Promising Practices in Evaluation

National 4-H Council is publishing a series of documents on promising practices around 4-H Science. The newest one features promising practices in evaluation of 4-H science programming, by Katherine Heck and Martin Smith. The publication can be found here.

Additional promising practices resources related to curriculum, evaluation, program design and development, professional development, partnerships, resource development, and marketing can be found here.

4-H Study of PYD articles

The July 2010 issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence included several studies using data from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, for which California has contributed data. These articles include:

 

* Overview on the measurement of thriving (Lerner, von Eye, Lerner, Lewan-Bizan, & Bowers)

* Confirmatory factor analysis of the 5 C's model (Bowers, Li, Kiely, Brittian & Lerner)

* Active and engaged citizenship (Zaff, Boyd, Li, Lerner & Lerner)

* Trajectories of positive and negative behaviors (Lewan-Bizan, Lynch, Fay, Schmid, & McPherran)

* Self regulation in middle adolescence (Gestsdottir, Bowers, von Eye, Napolitano & Lerner)

* Neighborhood assets & self regulation (Urban, Lewan-Bizan & Lerner)

* Assets and academic competence (Li, Lerner & Lerner)

* Missing data methods (Jelicic, Phelps & Lerner)

* Invited commentaries (Floyd and Porter)

* Book review of The Good Teen by Richard Lerner

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