Advances in Sciences and Humanities

Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2020

  • Critical Competencies of Program Quality as Perceived by Extension Educators

    Jeantyl Norze

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 52-57
    Received: 13 March 2020
    Accepted: 26 March 2020
    Published: 14 April 2020
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    Abstract: This study examined the perceptions of youth development professionals (n=1007) across the United States about six critical staff training components using the Program Quality Competency Questionnaire (PQCQ), which was a valid, reliable research instrument. The critical staff training components that were analyzed included program theory, child you... Show More
  • A Systematic Review of Program Quality in the Field of Positive Youth Development

    Jeantyl Norze, Melissa Cater

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 58-69
    Received: 27 April 2020
    Accepted: 26 May 2020
    Published: 16 June 2020
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    Abstract: The purpose of the study was to examine areas of competency for quality programming in the field of youth development. Program Quality is one of the new foci of evaluation capacity building (ECB) efforts that has not been clearly defined in the literature. For the purpose of this study, the researchers operationally defined program quality as the p... Show More
  • Organizing in the Shadow of Academic Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Omnipresence

    Farah Dubois-Shaik, Christophe Dubois

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 70-81
    Received: 27 May 2020
    Accepted: 11 June 2020
    Published: 28 June 2020
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    Abstract: Drawing on an empirical case study conducted in a Belgian University [1], this article proposes a framework to analyze how academic organizations are both structuring and structured by academics’ strategies. First, it accounts for three major logics of action – Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Omnipresence – percolating three organizational dimensi... Show More