National Research Findings
Reviews, papers, program evaluation,
SEL assessment and more...
Reviews and Papers
The Impact of After School Programs That Promote Personal and Social Skills (pdf)
The first of several reports to come from CASEL's major meta-analysis project conducted in collaboration with Joseph Durlak of Loyola University with funding from the W.T. Grant Foundation, this report describes the strong positive effects after-school programs can have, and the conditions needed to realize these benefits.
School Connectedness
Children don’t learn unless they believe that adults at school care about their learning and about them as individuals.
Do After School Programs Reduce Delinquency? (pdf)
Denise C. Gottfredson, et al
When School Is Out: Analysis and Recommendations
Published within The Future of Children, a publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.
Program Evaluation and SEL Assessment
Four Fold Youth Development Model
Instruments for evaluating youth development programs
Center for Prevention Research and Development
Gottfredson Associates
Effective School Battery, School Diversity Inventory, Social Competency Rating Form, and other prevention inventories
Character Education Partnership Assessment Index
Harvard Family Research Project
Evaluation guidance and database for out-of-school time programs
Child Trends Youth Development Outcomes Compendium Report (pdf ) with background on different youth behavioral outcomes, and a common set of measures for evaluating these outcomes
Emotional IQ
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test- MSCEIT
