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Now that your workforce development programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 are implemented, and performance data collection and performance reports are underway, how do you plan to evaluation for continuous...

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which was signed into law in 2014, places a new focus on pursing evidence-based practices in workforce development.

This HPOG 2.0 Short-Term Impact Report documents impacts on enrollees admitted to local programs during the first 25 months of program operations. The primary focus is on short-term impacts at about 15 months after study entry on training,...

An ongoing technical assistance effort is helping cohorts of state teams build their workforce evaluation capabilities. To support states with strengthening evaluation capacity under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the U.S....

Evaluating state workforce programs is a complex endeavor; many states may need help with building evaluation capacity to meet the requirements of section 116(e) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).

Since 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration has conducted an annual Evaluation Peer Learning Cohort (EvalPLC) technical assistance opportunity to support states in meeting those expectations. The EvalPLC is an...

This collection of resources provides state workforce agency (SWA) program administrators, local service providers, evaluation managers, and evaluators with resources and reference materials to support designing culturally responsive studies,...

This 2019 resource from the American Evaluation Association (AEA) describes AEA’s vision of the role of evaluation in government. It outlines steps government agencies can take to build capacity for evaluation, strengthen evaluation practice, and...

The foreword of a 2019 William T Grant Foundation monograph notes that it is written “by researchers and for researchers, but its message reverberates far beyond the reaches of the research community” (p. 5). The monograph focuses on the use of...

The Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) of the U.S. Department of Labor has issued succinct guidelines for its reports on evaluations using experimental designs. The guidelines offer government agency evaluators a checklist of features and approaches to...