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Re: [xmca] Literature on assessment in informal learning environments



Hi Robert,
Here's a listing—some classic and some new, some assessment and some research. Hope it's helpful.
Lois

Arts Education Partnership (1999). Champions of change: The impact of the arts on Learning. Washington, DC: Arts Education Partnership.
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development (1992). A matter of time: Risk and opportunity in the nonschool hours. Carnegie Council Monograph. http://www.carnegie.org/ccadpubs.htm

Catterall, J. (2002), Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School.
In R. Deasy (Ed.), Critical links: Learning in the arts and student achievement

and social development. Washington, DC: AEP.

Gordon, E. (2002). The idea of supplementary education. Pedagogical inquiry and
practice: Informing the development of high academic ability in minority students, 3, March 2002, p. 1-3.

Gordon, E., Bowman, C. & Mejia, B.(2003). Changing the script for youth development: An evaluation of the All Stars Talent Show Network and the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth. Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University: New York.

Halpern. R. (2009). The means to grow up: Re-inventing apprenticeship as a developmental
support in adolescence. NY: Routledge.

Heath, S. (2000). Making learning work. Afterschool Matters, 1 (1), 33-45.

Heath, S. B., Soep, E. and Roach, A. (1998). Living the arts through language and learning: A report on community-based youth organizations. Americans for the Arts Monographs 2.7:1-20.

Mahoney, J.L., Larson, R.W. and Eccles, J.S. (2005). (Eds.), Organized activities as contexts of development: Extracurricular activities, after school and community programs. Mahwah: NJ: Erlbaum.

Noam, G. G. (2004). (Ed.). After-school worlds: Creating a new social space for development and learning. New Directions for Youth Development, Number 101.

Sabo-Flores, K. (2003).  A Vygotskian perspective on youth participatory evaluation. Youth participatory evaluation: A field in the making, Special Issue of New Directions for Evaluation, no. 98, 13-24.

Sabo-Flores K. (2007). Youth participatory evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people (Research Methods for the Social Sciences). Jossey-Bass.

Sabo-Flores, K. (2009). A dynamic framework for understanding the complex work of quality out-of-school programs. New York: The Robert Bowne Foundation.

Strobel, K. Kirshner, B., O’Donoghue, J. and McLaughlin, M. (2008). Qualities that attract urban youth to after-school settings and promote continued participation. Teachers College Record, 110-8, 1177-1705.

Vadeboncoeur, J. (2006). Engaging young people: Learning in informal contexts. Review of Research in Education, 30, 239-278.

 

 

 

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On May 25, 2011, at 10:49 AM, robert lecusay wrote:

> Hi fellow XMCAmers,
> I'm working on a survey of the literature on contemporary approaches
> to assessment in informal learning environments (e.g. after school,
> museums, youth using new media)
> Recommendations?
> Thanks in advance for your help . . .
> -robert
> 
> 
> Robert Lecusay
> Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
> Department of Communication
> University of California, San Diego
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