Know Your Score! · Lesson 3 – Scoring Know Your Score! Scoring Key Some questions have a three-choice option, while others have two choices. Why is it better to give a best practice

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Overview

In this course, you will learn:

The basics of Know Your Score!

How to conduct the 4-step information-gathering process

What to consider when scoring best practices

Lesson 1 – Know Your Score! Basics

Five Phases of Know Your Score!

Know Your Score! is a five-part process. In this course, you learned about

preparing to take the assessment.

Write a brief summary of each phase:

1. Prepare and Assess - __________________________________________

2. Complete and Examine - ______________________________________

3. Prioritize and Implement - _____________________________________

4. Reassess and Check - _________________________________________

5. Accredit and Sustain - ________________________________________

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Background Info

The questions in the Background Information screen appear below. If you

don’t know the answer to a question, write the name of the person or people

you will ask to obtain the needed information.

Question/Information Needed Who I Will Ask

Over the course of a calendar year, how many

youth do you serve?

Over the course of a calendar year, how many

employees (full and part-time) do you have?

Do you use volunteers? If so, approximately

how many volunteers do you have over the

course of a calendar year?

Do staff or volunteers transport youth?

Do staff or volunteers take youth off-site (e.g.

sporting events, parks, etc.)?

Do you have locker rooms?

Do you have playgrounds?

Do you have on-site or off-site overnight

activities?

Do outside organizations or vendors use your

facilities for youth programming?

Question/Information Needed Who I Will Ask

Which of the following programs are offered

by your program?

Day camps

Resident/overnight camps

Aquatics

Youth sports

Conference centers/outdoor education

centers

Housing

Mentoring

Foster care

Child care

Before/after school

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Components of Know Your Score! Best Practices

On the picture below, circle these five components of a best practice: Best practice, Description,

Rationale, Comments, and Scoring.

Notes:

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Lesson 2 – Preparing to Take Know Your Score!

4-Step Process for Gathering Information

For each step, describe its importance to the information-gathering process and

explain what might occur if the step is not completed.

1. Read the best practice

and its description.

2. Collect and review documents.

3. Ask questions.

4. Observe programming.

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Lesson 3 – Scoring Know Your Score!

Scoring Key

Some questions have a three-choice option, while others have two choices.

Why is it better to give a best practice a lower score, if you aren’t sure how to

choose between two scoring options? For instance, on a three-choice best

practice, if you aren’t sure about selecting Some or Almost Everything, why

is it better to select Some?

Lesson 4 – Practice Scenarios

Tips for Success

Write at least three tips for completing Know Your Score! based on what you

learned in the practices scenarios.

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Notes