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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.
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Harvard Family Research Project presents brief descriptions of Minnesota and Oregon's results-based accountability systems.
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.
Kristen Moore and Brett Brown of Child Trends outline the field of child indicators in the 1990s.
Nancy Dunton of the New York State Department of Social Services discusses the challenges to data capacity for outcome-based accountability.
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.
Jean Layzer, Project Director of Abt Associates, examines theories of change in family support programs.
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.
A list of new resources on results-based accountability.
A list of useful resources on the Internet.
Jennifer Schumaker of Heifer Project International reviews the outcomes of a roundtable on participatory evaluation attended by 19 professionals that took place April 1995.
HFRP posed this question to Carole Upshur and Esterla Barreto-Cortez, researchers at the Mauricio Gastón Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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.
A list of new resources on 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.
An introduction to the issue on Participatory Evaluation by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D.
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, focuses on how to evaluate school-linked services.
Kathleen Shaw and Elaine Replogle of Harvard Family Research Project summarize the working paper by HFRP, Challenges in Evaluating Comprehensive School-Linked Service Initiatives.
Elaine Replogle from Harvard Family Research Project examines the Kentucky Education Reform Act, which established Family Resource Centers and Youth Service Centers.
Lori Rutter from Harvard Family Research Project summarizes Professor Jennifer Greene's presentation on using mixed methods to evaluate human service programs, which she made at HFRP's Evaluation Seminar Series.
HFRP posed this question to Mary Wagner, Ph.D., who is the program manager of educational and human services research at SRI International, and James Davis, Ph.D., who is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Delaware.
A list of resources to support professional development for teachers and school staff.
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, focuses on how to evaluate school-linked services.
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).