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WIOA sets out to implement workforce education and employment system reforms to help strengthen the public workforce system. Although WIOA replaced WIA, recent studies under WIA sought to address research questions to inform such reforms. The...

Presents a practical method for measuring rates of program entry and completion using data on students’ actual course-taking behaviors rather than declared major or intent.

Examines the design of New York’s earned income tax credit (EITC) program for noncustodial parents (NCP) and offers recommendations for improving the implementation in both New York and other states.

Explores the reasoning, process, outcomes, and lessons learned by a workforce policy change in Michigan that shifted away from emphasizing short-term job search and job placement services towards longer-term investment in training for in-demand...

Examines the data collected from three successful programs serving disconnected youth populations in order to distill key lessons for practitioners and policymakers aiming to improve outcomes for disconnected youth.

To understand why some workforce development programs achieve success and how these factors may be quantified or measured to help improve the workforce system as a whole, several successful programs in Chicago were studied.

Discusses the value and purpose of program evaluations, highlights different evaluation tools and techniques, and illustrates how policymakers and program managers can structure and implement evaluations of workforce development programs.

Evaluates a pilot sector-based approach to workforce and economic development in Colorado to meet the needs of local business and to maintain the state’s economic competitiveness.

Designed to help collaborating organizations anticipate and address the most common challenges associated with multi-agency performance management systems.

Provides guidance to program managers and agencies on how to use existing administrative and secondary data sources to conduct lower-cost impact evaluations, with a focus on evaluating business technical assistance programs.