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Cronen, Stephanie; Diffenderffer, Anne; Medway, Rebecca – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
This compendium presents comprehensive information from the surveys for the full report "Linking Adult Education to Workforce Development in 2018-19: Early Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act at the Local Level. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2023-001r" (ED626771), and serves as a supplement, which provides in-depth…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Adult Education, Labor Force Development, Labor Legislation
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Barbara D. Goodson; Eleanor Harvill; Carter Epstein; Maureen Sarna; Kyla Brown; Rachel McCormick – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
The set of appendices in this volume is a companion to the report "Federal Efforts Towards Investing in Innovation in Education Through the i3 Fund: A Summary of Grantmaking and Evidence-Building." The goal of the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) was to build high-quality evidence about effective…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Design, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation
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Kautz, Tim; Schochet, Peter Z.; Tilley, Charles – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
A new design-based theory has recently been developed to estimate impacts for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and basic quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) for a wide range of designs used in social policy research (Imbens & Rubin, 2015; Schochet, 2016). These methods use the potential outcomes framework and known features of study designs…
Descriptors: Design, Randomized Controlled Trials, Quasiexperimental Design, Research Methodology
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Linkow, Tamara; Parsad, Amanda; Martinez, Alina; Miller, Hannah – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
This appendix is a companion to the "Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Where and How Long Students Attend College" (ED615732) report. The appendix provides additional information about the "Find the Fit" enhanced advising strategies and the study that assessed its effectiveness when implemented…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, High School Seniors, Federal Programs, Access to Education
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Olsen, Robert B.; Unlu, Fatih; Price, Cristofer; Jaciw, Andrew P. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
This report examines the differences in impact estimates and standard errors that arise when these are derived using state achievement tests only (as pre-tests and post-tests), study-administered tests only, or some combination of state- and study-administered tests. State tests may yield different evaluation results relative to a test that is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, State Standards, Reading Achievement
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Person, Ann E.; Moiduddin, Emily; Hague-Angus, Megan; Malone, Lizabeth M. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2009
Character education programs are school-based programs that have as one of their objectives promoting the character development of students. This report systematically examines the outcomes that were measured in evaluations of a delimited set of character education programs and the research tools used for measuring the targeted outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Research Tools, Research Methodology, Personality
Wolf, Patrick; Gutmann, Babette; Puma, Michael; Rizzo, Lou; Eissa, Nada; Silverberg, Marsha – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2007
School choice remains an important part of the national discussion on education reform strategies and their benefits. While a variety of policies encourage parents' selection of schools for their children--for example, charter schools, magnet schools, and district open enrollment--scholarships that allow students to attend a private school have…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Research Methodology, Parents, Educational Change