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This report describes in detail how researchers, policymakers, and program administrators can recognize opportunities for experiments and carry them out. Specifically, the report focuses on opportunistic experiments, defined as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that study the effects of initiatives, program changes, or policy actions that agencies or programs plan or intend to implement — as opposed to studying an intervention or policy action that is developed...

The INQUIRE Toolkit grows out of the growing awareness of the importance of collecting data related to early care and education.  The Quality Initiatives Research and Evaluation Consortium (INQUIRE) Data Work Group was convened to address a request from stakeholders for information on building an effective data infrastructure to support activities including monitoring, continuous program improvement, reporting, validation and evaluation in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and...

This resource provides guidance to data users interested in using the 2019 NSECE to examine questions related to ECE access using a multi-dimensional, family-centric definition of access.

This brief from the Next Steps for Rigorous Research on Two-Generation Approaches (NS2G) project describes the components of a two-generation logic model and the process for developing one.

Explore OPRE’s Roadmaps to Building Evidence in Child Welfare, which is a collection of instructional resources about conducting child welfare evaluations for child welfare administrators and evaluators that describes many elements of the evaluation process.

This brief provides guidance for employment service providers and other human services agency staff who wish to implement evidence-based programs but find little information about the core components of those programs.

This brief describes the development, validation, and cross jurisdiction replication of a risk prediction model designed to predict foster care placement.

Learn about potential research designs for a future national descriptive study of transitions from Head Start to kindergarten, including research questions, sampling approaches, data collection efforts, and cost estimates.

This brief describes insights and lessons learned by the HPOG team while creating and operating PAGES and provides federal agencies and other organizations with recommendations for implementing data systems that support federally funded time-limited grants, demonstration projects, and evaluations similar to HPOG 2.0.

The goal of the QRS Assessment is to provide information, analysis, and resources about QRISs for states and other…