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Explore OPRE's research and evaluation technical assistance resources to learn how to employ cutting-edge methods to your research and evaluation projects.

Learn how to conduct culturally responsive and equitable virtual data parties that are designed to include community voice in a way that reflects their lived experience.

Learn about OPRE's Methods Meeting focused on applying mixed methods and qualitative approaches to social policy questions.

On October 19—20, 2022, the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) hosted the 2022 Methods Meeting, entitled Applying Mixed Methods and Qualitative Approaches to Social Policy Questions. The convening covered qualitative and mixed method approaches in social policy research and evaluation. This document provides a list of resources for readers who wish to learn more about these topics. Resources were compiled from the meeting topic memorandum, speakers’ presentations, question-and-answer sessions at the meeting, and a literature review conducted by Insight Policy Research. Each section in the document lists relevant resources categorized around frequently asked questions.

This document summarizes key themes and takeaways from each session of the 2021 OPRE Methods Meeting, which focused on community-engaged research, highlighting how it promotes equity in research by challenging traditional research dynamics and structures.

In this video, Dr. Katherine Corker of Grand Valley State University defines pre-registration and outlines how and why to pre-register a study. Dr. Corker gave this presentation at OPRE’s 2019 Methods Meeting, Methods for Promoting Open Science in Social Policy Research.

On October 28—29, 2020, the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation convened a virtual meeting for participants from Federal agencies, research firms, academia, and other organizations to discuss core components approaches.

This summary document highlights key themes and presentations from the virtual meeting.

This brief has two main goals:

• Describe the features of a well-designed and implemented subgroup analysis that uses a multiple regression framework.
• Provide an overview of recent methodological developments and alternative approaches to conducting subgroup analyses.

The brief builds on a 2009 meeting of experts convened by the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation and a corresponding 2012 publication in a special issue of Prevention Science (MacKinnon, Supplee, Kelly, & Barofsky, 2012).

“Open science” represents a broad movement to make all phases of research—from design to dissemination—more transparent and accessible. The scientific community and Federal agencies that support research have a growing interest in open science methods. In part this interest stems from highly publicized news stories and journal articles that cast doubt on research credibility...

“Open science” represents a broad movement to make all phases of research—from design to dissemination—more transparent and accessible. The scientific community and Federal agencies that support research have a growing interest in open science methods in response to highly publicized news stories and journal articles that cast doubt on research credibility...