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Does Intensive Mentoring Improve Teaching? Results from a Randomized Experiment: Steven Glazerman, Eric Isenberg, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Mary Grider and Matthew Jacobus
Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Use of Incentive Payments and the Evaluation Design (Appendices): Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt
The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration: Preliminary Findings: Anu Rangarajan, Alicia Meckstroth and Tim Novak
Building Coalitions to Support Maternal Health Quality of Care in India: So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Emma Pottinger
Choosing Wisely: Selecting Outcomes for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Services for Adults with Disabilities: Debra J. Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Eugene Rich
Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Behaviors and Mindsets: David Blazar and Matthew Kraft
A Focused Look at Rural Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants: Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson, Megan Hague Angus and Emily Rosenthal
Variation in Physiciansâ€™ Electronic Health Record Documentation and Potential Patient Harm from That Variation: Genna R. Cohen, Charles P. Friedman, Andrew M. Ryan, Caroline R. Richardson and Julia Adler-Milstein
Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash and Counseling Program: Jennifer Schore, Leslie Foster and Barbara Phillips
Disease Management Options: Issues for State Medicaid Programs to Consider: Randall Brown and Arnold Chen
Competency-Based Education in College Settings: Ann Person
QRS Profile: Colorado Qualistar: Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout
Menu of Measures: High-Quality Measures of Middle Years Math Student Outcomes: Julie Bruch, Jasmine Forde, Ijun Lai and Veronica Sotelo MuÃ±oz
Statistical Power for the Comparative Regression Discontinuity Design with a Pretest No-Treatment Control Function: Theory and Evidence from the National Head Start Impact Study: Yang Tang and Thomas D. Cook
Choices, Challenges, and Options: Child SSI Recipients Preparing for the Transition to Adult Life: Pamela J. Loprest and David Wittenburg
Senegalâ€™s Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project at Five Years Post-Compact: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Evaluation: Anthony Harris, Sarah Leser, Ahmadou Kandji and Sarah Hughes
Sources of Nutrients in Students Diets: Anne Gordon and Patricia M. McKinney
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 6 Impacts: Matthew Johnson and Alicia Demers
Tailored Teaching: The Need for Stronger Evidence About Early Childhood Teachers' Use of Ongoing Assessment to Individualize Instruction: Lauren Akers, Patricia Del Grosso, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Shannon Monahan, Kimberly Boller, Judith Carta and Barbara A. Wasik
Math Corps Successfully Replicated: Barbara Harris and Lindsay Fox
Forging Partnerships (In the Spotlight): Emily Knas and M. C. Bradley
Measuring Multi-Dimensional Change: Challenges and Opportunities in The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program (Presentation): Barry Burciul and Matt Sloan
Managed Long Term Care: Options for New York and Examples from Other States: James M. Verdier
Selecting the Best Comparison Group and Evaluation Design: A Guidance Document for State Section 1115 Demonstration Evaluations: James D. Reschovsky, Jessica Heeringa and Maggie Colby
Policy Opportunities to Improve Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Perinatal Mental Health Conditions: Jennifer E. Moore, Monica R. McLemore, Nadia Glenn and Kara Zivin
Discontinuous Coverage in Medicaid and the Implications of 12-Month Continuous Coverage for Children: Carol Irvin, Deborah Peikes, Chris Trenholm and Nazmul Khan
Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums: Marsha Gold, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman
Money Follows the Person 2013 Annual Evaluation Report: Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Wilfredo Lim, Rebecca SweetlLester and Victoria Peebles
The Effectiveness and Effects of Alcohol Regulation: Evidence from India: Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens and Gunjan Sharma
Why Do TRICARE Beneficiaries Miss Medical Appointments?: Breanna Wakar, Amy Gehrke and Nancy Clusen
Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades: Risk Factors and What Schools Can Do: Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz
Program Subgroups: Patterns of Impacts for Home-Based, Center-Based, and Mixed-Approach Programs: Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Helen H. Raikes and Cheri Vogel
Reaching Those in Need: Estimates of State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2012: Karen E. Cunnyngham
State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid and Housing Services: Rebecca Kleinman, Matthew Kehn, Allison Wishon Siegwarth and Jonathan Brown
Evaluating System Change: A Planning Guide: Margaret B. Hargreaves
Sampling with Uncertain Frame Counts: Challenges in Sampling Head Start Children for the FACES Study: Barbara Lepidus Carlson
A Portrait of Head Start Classrooms and Programs in Spring 2020: FACES 2019 Descriptive Data Tables and Study Design: Elizabeth Doran, Natalie Reid, Sara Bernstein, Tutrang Nguyen, Myley Dang, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Sharika Rakibullah, Myah Scott, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) 9-Month Twin Triad Restricted-Use Data File: Nikki Aikens, Nana Kwakye, Amy Rathbun, Jennifer Park and Jodi Jacobson Chernoff
Databases to Track Use of Preventive Services After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Anna Hill and JudyAnn Bigby
Design for the Evaluation of Early Elementary School Mathematics Curricula: Roberto Agodini, John Deke, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Barbara Harris and Robert Murphy
Spotlight on Maryland: Health Insurance Premiums, the Underwriting Cycle and Carrier Surpluses: Deborah Chollet
Sponsoring Institution Interests, Not National Plans, Shape Physician Workforce in the United States: Diane R. Rittenhouse, Alexandra S. Ament and Kevin Grumbach
White Paper on the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP): Charlotte Cabili, Esa Eslami and Ronette Briefel
Washington, D.C., Area Health Care Market Sticks to Fee for Service; Dips Toe into Value-Based Payment: Ha T. Tu, Laurie Felland, Paul B. Ginsburg, Kristie Liao, Kevin Draper and Rebecca Gourevitch
Employment Retention for TANF Recipients: Lessons From GAPS: Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell
Diet Quality of American Young Children by WIC Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2008 (Summary): Elizabeth Condon, Susan Drilea, Carolyn Lichtenstein, James Mabli, Emily Madden and Katherine Niland
Evaluation Interim Report for the Georgia II Improving General Education Quality Project's School Rehabilitation and Training Activities: Ira Nichols-Barrer, Nicholas Ingwersen, Camila Fernandez, Elena Moroz and Matt Sloan
Baseline Report on the Farming Practices Survey: Kenneth Fortson, Daniel Player, Randall Blair and Anu Rangarajan
How are PCORI-Funded Researchers Engaging Patients in Research and What are the Ethical Implications?: Lauren E. Ellis and Nancy E. Kass
Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) Are Promising Laboratories for Conduction Dissemination and Implementation Research: John Heintzman, Rachel Gold, Alexander Krist, Jay Crosson, Sonja Likumahuwa and Jennifer E. DeVoe
Evaluation of School Nutrition Policy: Philip Gleason
Medicare+Choice: Views from the Field: Cheryl Young and Jessica Mittler
Enhancing a Home Visiting Program to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy: The Longer-Term Impacts of Steps to Success: Dana Rotz, Menbere Shiferaw and Robert G. Wood
Second Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration: Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Judy Ng, Jennifer Schore and Clara Soh
Building College and Career Pathways for High School Students: Youth CareerConnect, Technical Report for the Impact Study: Paul Burkander, Nan Maxwell, Menbere Shiferaw, Matt Jacobus, Alma Vigil, Charles Tilley, Alicia Harrington, Erin Dillon, Hande Inanc and Peter Schochet
The Content, Predictive Power, and Potential Bias in Five Widely Used Teacher Observation Instruments: Brian Gill, Megan Shoji, Thomas Coen and Kate Place
Scheduler Issues in the Transition to Blaise: Leonard Hart
Insights from Federal Evaluation Technical Assistance Liaisons on the Partnerships Supporting Local Evaluations: Lindsay Cattell and Cay Bradley
Implications of Integrated Services for Participation Levels in Low-Income Assistance Programs: Harold Beebout
Alternative Routes to Teaching: The Impacts of Teach For America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes: Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker
State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Children with Mental Illness: Henry Ireys, Lori Achman and Ama Takyi
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 8 Impacts: Matthew Johnson and Daniel Thal
Beyond a Summer Work Experience: The Recovery Act 2009 Post-Summer Youth Employment Initiative: Pamela Holcomb, Jessica Ziegler and Elizabeth Laird
A Worksheet to Select Employment Interventions That Benefit Youth: Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere
The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases: Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong
Closing the Reading Gap: First Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers: Joseph Torgesen, David Myers, Allen Schirm, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Sonya Vartivarian, Wendy Mansfield, Fran Stancavage, Donna Durno, Rosanne Javorsky and Cinthia Haan
Going Beyond Test Scores: Evaluating Charter School Impact on Educational Attainment in Chicago and Florida: Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer
Association Between NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition for Primary Care Practices and Quality of Care for Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs: Kate A. Stewart, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Beny Wu, Randall S. Brown and Henry T. Ireys
Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015 (Summary): Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer
Re-Imagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective: Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky
Spotlight on South Carolina: Dana Petersen, Christal Ramos, Emily Lawton and Amanda Napoles
KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary): Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch
Early Learning About Healthy Relationships, Data Snapshot: Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth: Sarah Avellar, Alexandra Stanczyk, Nikki Aikens, Mathew Stange and Grace Roemer
Helping Working Families After Welfare: Access to New Jersey's Support Services: Linda C. Rosenberg, Charles Nagatoshi and Richard Roper
Providing Services to Veterans Through the Public Workforce System: Descriptive Findings from the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation, Volume II: Linda Rosenberg, Mark Strayer, Stephanie Boraas, Brittany English and Deanna Khemani
Informal Caregivers Research Project (INCARE): Ecomap Interview Protocol: C. Jacobs Johnson, J. Thomas, K. Boller and M. Young
The Complier Average Causal Effect Parameter for Multiarmed RCTs: Peter Z. Schochet
Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start: Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and RenÃ©e Nogales
Managing the Care of Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: A Review of Selected State Programs and Special Needs Plans: James M. Verdier, Melanie Au and Jessica Gillooly
Food Consumption Patterns of Infants and Toddlers: Where Are We Now?: Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Denise M. Deming, Kathleen C. Reidy, Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Condon and Ronette R. Briefel
Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care (In Focus Brief): Robin Dion
Small Area Estimates Produced by the U.S. Federal Government: Methods and Issues: John L. Czajka
Estimating the Cost and Utilization of Wraparound Coverage for Employed People with Disabilities: Jack Gettens, Denise Hoffman and Alexis Henry
Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? (Evaluation Brief): Kate Place and Philip Gleason
Creation of the November 1999 MATH SIPP Microsimulation Model and Database: Mike Bloom
Options for a National Database to Track Participation in Federal Means-Tested Public Assistance Programs: Myles Maxfield, James Ohls and William S. Borden
Correlates of Unintended Birth Among Low-Income Hispanic Immigrants at High Risk for Depression: Anna L. Christensen, Deborah F. Perry, Huynh-Nhu Le and Saifuddin Ahmed
Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys: John L. Czajka
The NQF Scientific Methods Panel: Enhancing the Review and Endorsement Process for Performance Measures: David R. Nerenz, David Cella, Lacy Fabian, Eugene Nuccio, John Bott, J. Matt Austin, Samuel Simon, Jack Needleman and Karen Johnson
Evaluation of UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Programme with Focus on Government of Netherlands Funding (2008-2010): Ghana Country Case Study Report: Kimberly Boller, Kathy Buek, Andrew Burwick, Minki Chatterji, Diane Paulsell, Samia Amin, Evan Borkum, Larissa Campuzano and Jessica Jacobson
Matching Study Designs to Disability-Related Comparative Effectiveness Research Questions: Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich and Matthew Kehn
Learning to Adapt: Helping Agape Child & Family Services Use Rapid-Cycle Learning to Drive Equitable Change: Tosin Shenbanjo, Delara Aharpour, Annie Buonaspina, Brittany Tabora and Scott Baumgartner
Evaluation Technical Assistance Update for OAH & ACYF Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Grantees: Susan Zief, Brian Goesling and Jean Knab
The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs: Silvia Robles, Max Gross and Robert Fairlie
Spotlight on Massachusetts: Mynti Hossain, Grace Anglin, Rebecca Peters, Adam Weiss and Emily Hayes
What the Data Reveal About State SNAP Options: Karen Cunnyngham
Paying the Doctor: Evidence-Based Decisions at the Point-of-Care and the Role of Fee-for-Service Incentives: Eugene C. Rich, Timothy K. Lake, Christal Stone Valenzano and Myles M. Maxfield
Asymdystopia: The Threat of Small Biases in Evaluations of Education Interventions that Need to be Powered to Detect Small Impacts: John Deke, Thomas Wei and Tim Kautz
Six Features of Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Programs that Cut Hospital Admissions of High-Risk Patients (Journal Article): Randall S. Brown, Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Jennifer Schore and Carol M. Razafindrakoto
New Work-Limiting Health Events and Occupational Transitions Among Older Workers: Jody Schimmel Hyde and April Yanyuan Wu

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