Deck 3: Developing and Ensuring Program Quality

Question 1

Professional organizations that accredit after school programs are:

A) National Counsel for Accreditation of Teacher Education
B) National Association for Sport and Physical Education
C) Council on Accreditation
D) National School Age Care Alliance

Answer 1

Council on Accreditation

Question 2

To create effective programs for children, activities should be:

A) self-selected
B) traditional games
C) similar to classroom settings
D) focused on academic learning

Answer 2

self-selected

Question 3

The Program Observation Tool is a tool for program quality improvement that is:

A) designed to help staff assess the feelings of students
B) used to measure keys of quality and assess progress
C) intended to help program leaders and staff in collaboration with others
D) developed to help in continuous improvement planning

Answer 3

used to measure keys of quality and assess progress

Question 4

Accreditation is important to programs for all of the following reasons except:

A) it encourages the school-age community to make a public statement about what is expected
B) it certifies to agencies that the program meets more than minimal standards for quality
C) it allows for programs to experiment with new untested methods on children
D) it encourages administrators and staff to formally review programs on a regular basis

Question 5

Accreditation is based on the ASQ, which was first used by which group?

A) California state school-age programs
B) U.S. Army school-age programs
C) U.S. school-age programs
D) Department of school-age programs

Question 6

Outcomes associated with high quality after school programs include:

A) completion of homework
B) better classroom behavior
C) Gains in academic achievement
D) All of the above

Question 7

The Quality Pyramid:

A) is a model for envisioning the goals of a quality after school program
B) describes the three generations of school-age care
C) is an after school accreditation system
D) is a program assessment tool

Question 8

The NAA Standards (formerly the NSACA Standards) contain five major areas:
Human Relationships; Activities; Health, Safety, and Nutrition; Administration; and _______________

A) Guidance & Discipline
B) Curriculum
C) Academics
D) Environment

Question 9

In the flowchart showing the "steps in the process" of accreditation, the "action plan", during which staff and parents develop a series of steps designed to improve their program, follows which important step?

A) Endorsers' Recommendation
B) Self-Study
C) Endorsement Visit

Question 10

What kinds of outcomes have been associated with high-quality school-age programs? Why is it important to review the components of a school-age program continually? How should programs accomplish that review?