Laurie Pearson, PhD

Imagine a world where everyone knows about the value of the camp experience. Where camp is universally considered an essential part of human development. Where every parent...

If you've been following this blog you know that the Research 360 goal is to build camp evaluation capacity. Thus far I've described what this means and why it is important, and in...

Hi everyone! Thanks for joining us as we dive a little deeper into the Research 360 circle; specifically, the part of the circle we are calling "local camps' evaluation capacity."...

Hello and happy fall from the ACA Research Team! With the change in seasons comes an exciting time for Research 360 as we launch ACA’s 5-year research project, the outer circle of...

If you’ve been following these posts you might be familiar with the two facets of Research 360: ACA’s new full circle approach to research and evaluation. Quick review: we have the...

Hello camp researchers and evaluators! Welcome again to Research 360: ACA’s new full circle approach to research and evaluation. I promised in last week’s post that I would dive...

Greetings once again from the ACA Research Team! Two weeks ago I compared research and evaluation in the first of a series of Research 360 blog posts. In that post I described ACA...

Greetings from the ACA Research Team! As you might have heard, ACA has identified research as one of its strategic priorities for the next 5 years. This is exciting news for camp...