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Once you define your desired outcomes and identifying a program that can achieve them, the next step is to identify ways to measure the outcomes. This link will lead to some sites that include a variety of methods which may be used to measure outcomes.
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- Early Childhood Measures Profile
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Early Childhood Measures Profile prepared by Child Trends includes a variety of methods that may be used to measure outcomes, including: approaches to learning measures, general cognitive measures, language measures, literacy measures, math measures, ongoing observational measures, social emotional measures, and early head start measures.
- The Evaluation Data Coordination Project: Common Constructs and Measures Across Nine ACF Studies and Other Key Data Collection Efforts
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The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Child Trends began this project with the perspective that coordinating data collections across multiple evaluation projects is crucial for making comparisons across evaluations and for facilitating cross-study research after the evaluations have been concluded. This online report provides constructs and measures within four domains: economic well-being, childcare, parenting, and children's socio-emotional development.
- The Fast Track Project
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The Fast Track project is based on the hypothesis that improving child competencies, parenting effectiveness, school context and school-home communications will, over time, contribute to preventing certain behaviors across the period from early childhood through adolescence. The Data section offers an extensive amount of information on the data instruments used in the study.