Exploring the Relationships between LA's BEST Program Attendance and Cognitive Gains of LA's BEST Students

Huang, Denise; Leon, Seth; Harven, Aletha M.; Torre, Deborah La; Mostafavi, Sima

doi:10.1037/e642702011-001

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“…The results indicated that higher levels of participation in the LA's BEST afterschool program led to better school attendance and higher scores on subsequent testing (Huang et al, 2000). Other studies on LA's BEST have resulted in similar findings Huang, De Vries, et al, 2004;Huang, Leon, La Torre, & Mostafavi, 2008).…”

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confidence: 69%

Keeping Kids in School: A Study Examining the Long-Term Impact of Afterschool Enrichment Programs on Students’ High School Dropout Rates

Huang

Kim

Cho

et al. 2011

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Despite the potential benefits of afterschool programs, much of the related research has been limited to an examination of only their immediate or short-term effects. The LA's BEST afterschool program has been in operation for more than 20 years, providing researchers with a unique opportunity to explore the long-term effects of afterschool programming. This study examined the dropout rates of the LA's BEST afterschool participants and compared them to a stratified random district sample that was matched to the characteristics of the afterschool students. The results indicated that students who had participated in the afterschool program for at least three years showed a significantly lower dropout rate than the district students overall.

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Keeping Kids in School: A Study Examining the Long-Term Impact of Afterschool Enrichment Programs on Students’ High School Dropout Rates

Huang

Kim

Cho

et al. 2011

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“…The common practice of simply using a treatment indicator (i.e., splitting students into a treatment and non-treatment group) is usually insufficient to adequately capture the important program dynamics of student engagement (student average attendance). Noting the importance of regularly attending the program in order to be benefited by the experience (Huang, Leon/La Torre/Mostafavi, 2008), student engagement was added to clarify treatment effects in this study. It is theorized that exposure and intensity are likely related to unobserved student program participation decisions (e.g., parents work afterschool and the child has no other place to go) as opposed to student engagement, which is assumed to be related to students' interest in the program and program quality.…”

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Examining the Long-Term Effects of Afterschool Programming on Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA’s BEST Afterschool Program

Huang¹,

Goldschmidt²,

Matrundola³

2014

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This article examines the extent to which participation in a large urban afterschool program had an impact on reducing participants' future juvenile crime rate. The research tracked the academic and juvenile crime histories for a sample of 6,000 students, including 2,000 participants in LA's BEST and 4,000 matched control students not participating in the program. Multilevel propensity scores were used to match control to treatment students, and applied to multilevel longitudinal models and multilevel survival analyses methods to analyze the data. Results indicate that LA's BEST positively impacted the probability of juvenile crime. Furthermore, analyses indicated that students who were actively and intensely engaged benefited the most from the program.

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“…Controlling for student background factors, the researchers analyzed achievement using the following after-school attendance doses: less than 20 days, 21 to 50 days, 51 to 100 days, and more than 100 days. The research team found a significant effect on mathematics achievement for students who attended the program for more than 100 days (Huang et al 2008).…”

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After-School Programs: Finding the Right Dose

Dietel¹

2009

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Exploring the Relationships between LA's BEST Program Attendance and Cognitive Gains of LA's BEST Students

Cited by 5 publications

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Keeping Kids in School: A Study Examining the Long-Term Impact of Afterschool Enrichment Programs on Students’ High School Dropout Rates

Keeping Kids in School: A Study Examining the Long-Term Impact of Afterschool Enrichment Programs on Students’ High School Dropout Rates

Examining the Long-Term Effects of Afterschool Programming on Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA’s BEST Afterschool Program

After-School Programs: Finding the Right Dose

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