Just published: New book on using data for program improvement
Co-edited by PSA’s Christina Russell and featuring a chapter by Jason Spector, Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time (Information Age Publishing, 2020) shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Measure, Use, Improve! offers a guide for building a system of evaluation, with resources and ideas for evaluators and out-of-school organizations just getting started on their data journeys, and for those seeking to build and apply new knowledge to program improvement. The authors share conceptual frameworks that have helped inform their thinking, walk through practical examples of how data in out-of-school time has strengthened their organizations, and offer advice to colleagues.
