Happy New Year from OPRE! As we begin 2023, we invite you to take a look back at our most downloaded new publications in 2022. We hope you’ll take a moment to explore reports you missed, or share a favorite resource with a colleague. You can always explore these resources, and others, in OPRE's publication library. Thank you for engaging with OPRE and our work. We look forward to continuing to share rigorous and relevant research and resources in 2023.
1. Applying Human-Centered Design to Human Services: Pilot Study Findings
This report includes a review of the knowledge base to define human-centered design (HCD) and describe how it has been used and evaluated in the human services context, and a pilot study to evaluate the implementation of HCD, with a focus on assessing its evaluability.
2. 2019 NSECE Snapshot: Child Care Cost Burden for U.S. Households with Children Under Age 5
This snapshot presents findings from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) about the child care and early education cost burdens of U.S. households with young children.
3. A Review of Human-Centered Design in Human Services
This brief presents a definition of human-centered design (HCD) that is applicable to the context of human services delivery, differentiates HCD from similar design and problem-solving approaches, and describes how HCD is being used in human services.
4. Linking Administrative Data to Improve Understanding of Child Maltreatment Incidence and Related Risk and Protective Factors: A Feasibility Study
This project report assesses the feasibility of enhancing data linkage and analysis efforts to produce new information on child maltreatment and to identify promising practices and contextual and organizational factors related to using linked administrative data.
5. Reflective Supervision: A Planning Tool for Home Visiting Supervisors
This brief introduces five categories of key elements associated with reflective supervision. It then presents a tool to help supervisors plan, conduct, and reflect on sessions with a focus on those elements. Readers may print a copy of the blank tool and/or refer to a sample completed tool in the appendix.
6. Defining and Measuring Access to Child Care and Early Education with Families in Mind
This brief highlights a definition of access that is centered on families and acknowledges four dimensions that families consider when choosing child care and early education: access means that parents, with reasonable effort and affordability, can enroll their child in an arrangement that supports the child’s development and meets the parents’ needs.
7. Does Classroom Quality Promote Preschoolers’ Learning? A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Classroom Quality on Child Outcomes
This brief describes the Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions (VIQI) project, its key research questions, and the conceptual framework underlying it. The conceptual framework outlines the pathways by which interventions are expected to lead to the anticipated outcomes in line with prior research.
8. Costs of Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting: Results from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation
This report presents results of an analysis focused on the questions of how resources are allocated at Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV)-funded local home visiting programs, how much it costs to provide home visiting to the average family, and how costs differ across families, local programs, and evidence-based models.
9. Introducing the Reasonable Efforts Findings Study
This brief describes the Reasonable Efforts Findings (REFS) Study and what it seeks to learn about judicial decision-making, data the study will collect, the study sample, and the importance of the study to the legal community.
10. Evaluating Leadership Development in Early Care and Education
This brief presents the findings from a review of research on early care and education leadership development initiatives from the Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) that focuses on leadership in center-based ECE settings.