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Calendar
Parent - Child Literacy Activity Calendar 2005-2006. This colorful calendar offers tips, activities, suggested reading materials and more!
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Evaluation Plans Helpful Hints
The resources below may be helpful to applicants as they work on evaluation plans for the 2006 Early Childhood Educator Professional Development (ECEPD) program grant award competition. The resources include descriptions of and links to the documents that [ been found to be most useful. Since this site just came up a couple of weeks ago, many of our competitions have already been announced. However, for the couple that haven't been announced, we're going to provide a link from our application package to the sites for any interested applicants.
- Random Assignment in Program Evaluation, Qs and As. This is a 9 page document that lists basic questions and answers that an educator or administrator might have about random assignment and why it is an effective and beneficial tool to use in education.
- How to Report the Results of Your Study:A User-Friendly Guide for Evaluators of Educational Programs and Practices: This is a 13 page guide that would be helpful to grantees conducting evaluations. This can help grantees produce reports that are user-friendly and include the appropriate information needed to accurately and fully convey their findings to an audience.
- Key Items to Get Right When Conducting a Randomized Control Trial in Education: Although this is geared a little more toward an evaluator (rather than an educator), it does offer advice for educators to think about as they work with their evaluator in conducting a randomized control trial. It discusses planning the study, the random assignment process, measuring outcomes, and analysis.
- What Works Clearinghouse of Outcome Evaluators: This link lets applicants/grantees search for a qualified evaluator by geographic area, individual or organization, content area, and target population. (If an evaluator would like to be included in this list, information on how to submit registry data is available at: Submit Registry Data
Other Early Childhood Resources
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