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Developmental Assets and Community-Based Youth Programs in Columbia, Guatemala, and Honduras
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Claire M. de Mezerville-López – Journal of Youth Development, 2023
This paper explores the external developmental assets and how they manifest in specific youth programs from Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras. An evaluation process was created through a qualitative phenomenological with the youth programs' leadership. To triangulate the data, a survey was developed and piloted with a small sample from three youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Youth Programs, Program Evaluation
Social Emotional Learning in a Guatemalan Preschool Sample: Does Socioeconomic Status Moderate the Effects of a School-Based Prevention Program?
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Clinton, Amanda B.; Edstrom, Leihua; Mildon, Heather A.; Davila, Lesliann – School Psychology International, 2015
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a universal social skills program and compared social emotional knowledge on individual skills interviews with 100 Guatemalan preschool children from resource rich (N?=?47) and resource poor (N?=?53) backgrounds. Participant ages ranged from 3- to 6-years-old. SEL was evaluated prior and subsequent to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Social Development, Emotional Development, Socioeconomic Status
More Alike than Different: Early Childhood Professional Development in Guatemala
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Hardin, Belinda J.; Vardell, Rosemarie; de Castaneda, Albertina – Childhood Education, 2008
This article describes an early childhood professional development project that took place in the summer of 2005 in Guatemala City. Located in Central America, Guatemala has a population of approximately 12.3 million people, including more than two million children under the age of 5 (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007; UNICEF, 2004). Events…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Child Care
Improving Girls' Education in Guatemala. Impact Evaluation.
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Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. Center for Development Information and Evaluation. – 1999
In Guatemala, many girls attend no school. A project by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Basic Education Strengthening (BEST), demonstrated that improving educational quality is the best approach to enhancing girls' participation. BEST included a Girls Education Program (GEP) activity. Under the BEST/GEP umbrella,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Quality