Industry-Relevant Research from ACA
Welcome to the ACA Research site! If you need any help or have addtional questions, please contact research@acacamps.org [1].
Document and Share the Importance of the Camp Experience
- Measure Youth Outcomes [2]
- Youth Development and the Camp Experience [3]
- Nature-Based Experiences and Healthy Child Development [4]
- Camp Research Reports and Articles (see below in Connect and Collaborate)
Enhance the Quality of the Camp Experience
- Camp Program Quality Assessment [5]
- Program Quality Toolbox [6]
- Implement a Camp Program Improvement Process (PIP) [7]
- Healthy Camp Toolbox: Resources for Injury and Illness Prevention [8]
- Spirituality and the Camp Experience [9]
Improve Camp Business Operations
- Camper Enrollment and Staff Recruitment Studies [10]
- Staff Compensation, Benefits, and Professional Development Studies [11]
- Budget and Finance Studies [12]
- Sites, Facilities, and Programs Studies [13]
- Emerging Issues [14]
- Camp-School Partnership Study [15]
- ACA Fact Sheets [16]
Connect and Collaborate
Helpful Research and Evaluation Papers
- Briefing Papers - [17]concise research compilations on critical camp outcomes, benefits, and experiences (written by Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation)
- ACA National Reports
- Directions: Outcomes of the Camp Experience [18]
- Inspirations: Developmental Supports and Opportunities of Youths' Experiences at Camp [19]
- Innovations: Improving Youth Experiences in Summer Programs [20]
- Healthy Camp Study Impact Report [21]
- Camp2Grow Impact Report [22]
- Explore 30 Impact Report [23]
- Bibliographies of Camp-Related Research [24]
- ACA Public Policy Position Papers [25]
Present and Publish Camp Research and Evaluation
- Submit a Camping Magazine Research Column [26]
- Camp Research Symposium [27](NEW- 2013 Research Symposium Book of Abstracts now available)
- Scholarly Publications and Presentations [28]
- PowerPoint Presentations [29]
- Camp Research Presentations [30]
Collaboration on Camp Research and Evaluation
- Research Collaboration Process [31]
- ACA Research Mini-Grant Program
- 2008 Camp Research Collaboration Summit Summary [32]
Recognitions and Awards for Camp Research
ACA Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation
- Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation (CARE) [34]
- CARE applicant information [35]
Measurement Resources (scales, surveys, etc)
- ACA Youth Outcomes Battery [36](YOB)
- ACA Program Quality Toolbox [37]
- ACA Camp Program Quality Assessment [38](short form) (C-PAQ Short Form)
- ACA Camp Program Quality Assessment Short Form Checklist [39]
- Camp Program Quality Assessment [40](full form co-branded with Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality)
- ACA Camp 2 Grow Leadership and Environmental Stewardship Program evaluation survey
- ACA Explore 30 Camp Reading Program evaluation survey [41]
- ACA Camper Growth Index [42] (camper, parent, staff pre-post surveys from the 2005 ACA National Youth Outcomes Study)
- Other non-ACA measurement resources (coming Winter 2013)
National Demographic Data
- Census data [43]
- Briefs [44]
- ACA demographic data [45]
- Other related demographics data [46] (education, volunteerism, etc)
- Camp Diversity: A Call to Action [47]
Research from ACA Partners and Allies
The Evolving Buying Habits of Moms [48] — Active Network