Evaluation

Camp research trends include focus on acquiring equity, staff-camper interactions, and critical learning moments for campers.

ACA’s Youth Outcomes Battery is a set of surveys designed specifically for camp professionals to use to measure camper outcomes. Join us in this webinar to learn about this easy...

The youth development outcomes tools were designed specifically for camps interested in exploring what their campers gain from their camp experience.

Hello camp evaluators, and happy fall season. While some of you are as busy as ever, others are taking a deep breath for the first time in months. No matter where you are at, you...

Greetings camp evaluators! Congratulations on making it to the end (or very nearly the end) of your summer season. I am so excited to present the following guest post for this week...

Think back to the start of summer—are there things you know now that you wish you knew then?

I used to be a camp director, which means that, like many of you, my summers were spent in the whirl of camp. Each day flew into the next, and never did a day pass without a crisis...

Hello camp evaluators! Welcome to Part 3 of my series on measuring enrollment. When I started this series, I believe I had in mind that it would be a single blog, but that blog...

To truly understand if you are serving campers in the ways you hope, you need to look at enrollment from several different angles.

Enrollment represents the number of campers we serve — but, as straightforward as that sounds, it’s not.