Resource Library

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

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation team developed a video series that provides information on a range of data-related topics aimed at helping grantees collect high-quality data on their programs.

Explore the Crosswalk of Constructs and Measures, a report highlighting the characteristics, constructs, and measures across all three cohorts of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW).

This chartbook describes the relative geographic distribution of children and CCEE providers in 2019 and 2012 using nationally representative data from the 2019 NSECE and 2012 NSECE. It also compares the relative distribution of children in different kinds of CCEE by different community characteristics in both years.

Learn about ExCELS theory of change which is an illustration of what leadership looks like in center-based ECE settings and how leadership by center managers and teaching staff can influence outcomes.

This brief highlights examples of short-term strategies sites participating in the Fathers and Continuous Learning project implemented to collect, analyze, and report data outside their own data systems.

Discover how sites participating in a Breakthrough Series Collaborative to engage fathers and paternal relatives used a Collaborative Change Framework to guide their work. The brief shares include video interviews with sites.

Explore briefs highlighting ACF projects to support the agency’s evidence capacity, including needs assessment, learning agenda development, and administrative data analysis.

Running from 2015 to 2021, the second round of the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF’s) Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program (“HPOG 2.0”) funded grantees to provide support services and healthcare occupational training according to career pathways principles.  ACF’s Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is administering a robust evaluation of the HPOG 2.0 effort: the National and Tribal Evaluation of the 2nd Generation of Health Profession Opportunity Grants.  The National Evaluation of 27 non-Tribal grantees is comparing outcomes and impacts for program applicants randomly assigned access to the grantees’ HPOG 2.0 programs (treatment group) versus those randomly assigned access only to services available elsewhere in the community (control group).

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, disrupting American lives, labor markets, and local HPOG 2.0 programs.  To better understand how COVID changed outcomes and impacts for HPOG 2.0 study members relative to the pre-COVID period, OPRE contracted with Abt Associates to conduct the HPOG 2.0 National Evaluation COVID-Cohort Study.

This Analysis Plan describes the methodology for answering the study’s key research questions.  The document also improves the transparency and replicability of study findings by committing the research team to make consequential decisions prior to inspecting estimates of program impacts.  Most methods and operationalizations of outcomes measures continue from earlier HPOG 2.0 impact analyses and are described in previous Analysis Plans.  This Analysis Plan therefore primarily focuses on specifying analytic methods and presentation strategies specific to this study’s understanding of how COVID shifted the HPOG 2.0 program.

Learn strategies Head Start programs use to coordinate family support services and processes to ensure alignment with individual family needs and well-being.