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Download full textSanlyn Buxner; Erin Turner; Ricardo Valerdi; Seneca B. Miller; Christina Baze – Afterschool Matters, 2025
In sports, youth are coached to see persistence and hard work as important paths to personal improvement and success. They come to understand through practice that mistakes are tools to help them improve and that collaboration and teamwork are keys to success in team sports. These ideas about the importance of effort, persistence, mistakes, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Cognitive Structures, Mathematical Concepts, Self Concept
Direct linkRebecca S. Levine; Samantha Viano – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Out-of-school time (OST) programs can have a positive impact on youth outcomes, including academic achievement and social-emotional development. However, there are vast inequities in program accessibility and quality, with low-income adolescents being particularly underserved. This study synthesizes research on OST programs serving…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Low Income Students, Secondary School Students, Adolescents
Jessica Bouchard; Jennifer S. Wong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Gender Issues, After School Programs
Lili Zhou – Afterschool Matters, 2025
Despite the success of informal STEM programs, one ongoing challenge is sustaining learners' interest beyond the programs' initial impact (Morris et al., 2019). Although some longitudinal studies suggest that such programs can have a lasting impact on girls in STEM (e.g., McCreedy & Dierking, 2013), further research is needed to identify the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, STEM Education, Females, Womens Education
Chynar Amanova; Judith Dymond – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2025
It is important that teens are exposed to STEM education both through formal and informal learning opportunities. STEM cafés are an instance of the latter. Within an informal setting, teen science cafés can significantly enhance teens' view of the importance of science in their lives, positively influencing teens' understanding of science in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Informal Education, Adolescents, Relevance (Education)
Xin Gong; Huixia Gu; Wei Gao; Siyuan Wang – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2025
In 2021, China issued the "Double Reduction" (DR) policy to reduce the within- and outside-school burden on students. The policy requires all compulsory education schools to provide after-school services such as homework tutoring and well-rounded development activities for willing students. Based on student survey data from 13 schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Tutoring
