Oh Yoonkyung, Osgood D Wayne, Smith Emilie Phillips
The Pennsylvania State University.
J Early Adolesc. 2015 Jun-Aug;35(5-6):681-713. doi: 10.1177/0272431614561261.
As the importance of afterschool hours for youth development is widely acknowledged, afterschool settings have recently received increasing attention as an important venue for youth interventions. A range of intervention programs have been in place, generally aiming at positive youth development through enhancing the quality of programs. A growing need has thus arisen for reliable and valid measures of afterschool quality. This study examined the extent to which the two observational tools, i.e., Caregiver Interaction Scales (CIS) and Promising Practices Rating Scales (PPRS), could serve as reliable and valid tools for assessing the various dimensions of afterschool setting quality. The study shows the potential promise of the instruments, on the one hand, and suggests future directions for improvement of measurement design and development of the field, on the other hand. In particular, our findings suggest the importance of addressing the effect of day-to-day fluctuations in observed afterschool quality.
由于课余时间对青少年发展的重要性已得到广泛认可，课余活动场所最近作为青少年干预的重要场所受到了越来越多的关注。一系列干预项目已经实施，总体目标是通过提高项目质量来促进青少年的积极发展。因此，对可靠且有效的课余质量衡量标准的需求日益增长。本研究考察了两种观察工具，即照顾者互动量表（CIS）和有前景实践评级量表（PPRS），在何种程度上可作为评估课余活动场所质量各个维度的可靠且有效工具。该研究一方面展示了这些工具的潜在前景，另一方面为测量设计的改进和该领域的发展提出了未来方向。特别是，我们的研究结果表明，应对观察到的课余质量的日常波动影响具有重要意义。
