The Harvard Family Research Project separated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education to become the Global Family Research Project as of January 1, 2017. It is no longer affiliated with Harvard University.
Challenges to Data Capacity for Outcome-Based Accountability
Nancy Dunton of the New York State Department of Social Services discusses the challenges to data capacity for outcome-based accountability.
Education Outcome-Based Accountability Systems: Challenges and Lessons
Susan Fuhrman, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, answers three questions on the challenges—political, technical, and financial—states face in developing accountability systems.
Results-Based Accountability #1
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, explores results-based accountability. The issue includes an overview of accountability systems, discussing both the opportunities and challenges they present, as well as HFRP's preliminary findings from our Results-Based Accountability Project, which is studying the approaches of several states in designing and implementing accountability systems.
Building Theories of Change in Family Support Programs
Jean Layzer, Project Director of Abt Associates, examines theories of change in family support programs.
New & Noteworthy
A list of new resources on results-based accountability.
Electronic Mailbox
A list of useful resources on the Internet.
From the Director's Desk
An introduction to the issue on Results-Based Accountability by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D.
Results-Based Accountability Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
Karen Horsch of Harvard Family Research Project provides an overview of accountability systems, including their opportunities and challenges.
Results-Based Accountability Systems in Practice: Oregon and Minnesota
Harvard Family Research Project presents brief descriptions of Minnesota and Oregon's results-based accountability systems.
Professional Development Opportunities & Resources
The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health (RTC), in partnership with the Judge Baker Technical Assistance Center, will be offering technical assistance on outcomes, system accountability, and the self-evaluation method.
Indicators of Child and Family Well-Being
Kristen Moore and Brett Brown of Child Trends outline the field of child indicators in the 1990s.
Participatory Evaluation
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, explores participatory evaluation strategies. The issue introduces and examines the key ideas behind participatory approaches through the work of its practitioners and to indicate the wide range of fields where these approaches are being applied and tested.
From the Director's Desk
An introduction to the issue on Participatory Evaluation by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D.
Participatory Evaluation: Enhancing Evaluation Use and Organizational Learning Capacity
The Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization (RWARM)
Participatory Evaluators' Roundtable, 1995
Jennifer Schumaker of Heifer Project International reviews the outcomes of a roundtable on participatory evaluation attended by 19 professionals that took place April 1995.
What Is Participatory Evaluation (PE)? What Are Its Roots?
HFRP posed this question to Carole Upshur and Esterla Barreto-Cortez, researchers at the Mauricio Gastón Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Participatory Evaluation Research as Catalyst for Reform: An Example From an Urban Middle School
Jennifer Pastor and Rosemarie Roberts of the City University of New York describe the outcome of their use of participatory evaluation for their school reform project.
New & Noteworthy
A list of new resources on participatory evaluation.
Head Start as a Family Support Program: Renewing a Community Ethic
This report discusses the efforts of six Head Start programs to address the challenges and goals raised in the 1993 report, Creating a 21st Century Head Start. It assesses their progress in several key areas: expanding enrollment, strengthening parent involvement, addressing issues such as homelessness and substance abuse, improving staff training, bridging research and practice, and collaborating with schools and social service agencies, and addressing issues such as homelessness and substance abuse.
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Community-Based Family Support in Public Housing
This book examines the history of public housing, women's key leadership roles in those communities, and the experiences of eight family support programs located in public housing developments. In-depth case studies provide lessons on how entities as diverse as public housing authorities, community-based agencies, and research institutions work to empower these often-neglected communities.
Evaluating School-Linked Services
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, focuses on how to evaluate school-linked services.
Professional Development Opportunities & Resources
A list of resources to support professional development for teachers and school staff.
New Jersey's School-Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP)
This evaluation report from Academy for Education Development (AED) examined a range of services to children and adolescents at 29 secondary schools and 16 primary schools in the New Jersey's School-Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP).
The Washington Heights Community Schools Project
The Washington Heights Community Schools Project conducts an evaluation to support educational and health outcomes.