1. Evaluation and Research to Increase Evidence for Workforce Programs
July 2, 2019
Evaluation and Research to Increase Evidence for Workforce Programs
National Association of Workforce Boards Forum
March 26, 2019

2. Adele Gagliardi
Administrator, Office of Policy Development and Research
U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

3. State and Local Activities
Building Evaluation Capacity
Implementing Evidence-Based Approaches
Federal Updates
Findings from recent studies
New evaluations underway
Examples of Evaluation Activities and Resources

4. Clyde McQueen David Hunn Wayne Gordon President and CEO
Full Employment Council, Inc. of Kansas City
David Hunn
Executive Director
Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board
Wayne Gordon
Director, Research and Evaluation
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

5. Panel Discussion

6. Discussion: Value and Use of Research and Evaluations
Formalizing workforce and research partnerships to design and conduct rigorous evaluations;
Identifying research and evaluation priorities for your local areas and states; and
Utilizing data sets, tools and systems for evaluative research.

7. Questions?

13. Evaluation and Research Hub
A community point of access to support policymakers and program managers with their efforts to use evaluations to improve services and choose evaluations and research to inform program policies and evidence-based practices
Workforce System Strategies
Contains over 1200 profiles of workforce development research and evaluation studies, toolkits, and other resources to support program management and operations, education and training, and employment, retention or advancement activities.
USDOL-ETA Division of Research and Evaluation
Manages ETA’s rigorous research and evaluation publications, public data sets, and current projects.
CLEAR
Makes research on labor topics more accessible to practitioners, policymakers, research and the public to help inform decisions; and summarizes findings from rigorous studies.
Evaluation Policy Statement
DOL’s key principles to panning, conducting, and using program evaluations.
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14. Workforce System Strategies
Support for access to Evaluation Resources
WorkforceGPS
Gloria Salas-Kos
Program Analyst – Research and Evaluation
USDOL-ETA