| Roundtable: Applied Early Childhood Research and Evaluation: Informing Public Policy With Real World Data |
| Roundtable Presentation 557 to be held in the Marble Boardroom on Friday, Nov 7, 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM |
| Sponsored by the Pre-K - 12 Educational Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Marijata Daniel-Echols, High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, mdaniel-echols@highscope.org |
| Abstract: During this session, examples from ongoing state-funded evaluations of preschool programs in Michigan and South Carolina and completed research on Head Start will be used to demonstrate how issues like design (quasi-experimental, random assignment, regression discontinuity), defining and measuring concepts, establishing efficacy and effectiveness, and political context have impacted the type of data that can be collected for evaluation, how that data has been communicated to program and policy stakeholders and the varying levels of success in impacting policy using evaluation data. The goal of this session is to bring together evaluators who have conducted evaluations of early childhood education programs to share their own experiences and collectively identify strategies that have successfully addressed particular challenges. |