ERIC Number: ED673867
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr
Pages: 28
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) Evaluation and Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 1.0) Impact Study: Joint Nine-Year Follow-Up Analysis Plan. A Career Pathways Extended-Term Outcomes Study Publication. OPRE Report 2024-077
Douglas Walton; Laura R. Peck
Administration for Children & Families
Both the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) and Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 1.0) Programs sought to apply a career pathways framework in evaluating varied training programs for nontraditional student populations. This framework identifies a set of principles thought to exemplify best practices in employment and training, particularly for economically disadvantaged populations (Fein, 2012). Central tenets include packaging training in manageable steps, using promising instructional strategies, providing wraparound services to support participation, and maintaining close connections with local employers. PACE and HPOG 1.0 grantee programs embodied these principles to varying degrees and in different ways. Career pathways provides a conceptual framework for comparing programs and considering how observed variation in design and implementation might help to account for differences in effectiveness. This report presents the plan for evaluating the impacts of the PACE project and the first round of HPOG 1.0 on key outcomes nine years after random assignment into the program. The purpose of this analysis plan is to document the approach and publicly commit to specified outcomes in hypothesis testing and an estimation approach prior to inspecting treatment-control differences on newly collected data. Such practices are consistent with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Evaluation Policy and commitment to rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics in research studies. As in prior rounds, this analysis plan will be registered with the Open Science Framework.
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Nontraditional Students, Best Practices, Training, Economically Disadvantaged, Teaching Methods, Services, School Business Relationship, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Wages, Allied Health Occupations Education, Grants
Administration for Children & Families. US Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW, Washington, DC 20447. Web site: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE); Abt Associates, Inc.; MEF Associates
Grant or Contract Numbers: HHSP233201500069I
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