School-age Care Environment Rating Scale (SACERS) SACERS provides an easy to use resource for defining high-quality care and assessing levels of quality in child care programs offered by schools and other organizations. It consists of 49 items, organized under seven categories: Space and Furnishings-- Health and Safety-- Activities-- Interactions-- Program Structure-- Staff Development-- Supplementary Items (for children with special needs).Full ... Full description
Of all these rating scale books this was hands down my least fav. Completely unrealistic expectations for a school age program. This scale was never very well used in our practice, as we were rarely reviewed on this. It's got some ok ideas but overall this badly needed an update when these books were relevant and is completely useless now.