Next Steps

The original design of the Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After- School Programs called for studying one year of program implementation. However, the study was expanded to include a second year of implementation and data collection using a sample of 15 math centers and 12 reading centers. This sample includes students who were part of the study in the first year and students who were new to the study in the second year, allowing the new wave of data collection to shed light both on the cumulative impact of the enhanced after-school program on returning students and on the impact of a more mature program on new students. Those results will be presented in the final report of the evaluation.