Speaking in parliament, Labour's shadow youth minister Steve Reed asked whether the government would "widen the scope" of the annual independent evaluation of the National Citizen Service (NCS) in order to "make comparisons with other youth programmes with similar aims to NCS".
But Crouch rejected the idea, adding that the government is already supporting efforts to improve evaluation of wider youth work.
This includes funding for the Centre for Youth Impact, a social enterprise that aims to improve how the youth sector measures its effectiveness.
She added that £1m in funding has been made available to evaluate projects funded through the government's £40m Youth Investment Fund.
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