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Evaluating Houston’s HueMan: Shelter: A Bloomberg Public Art Challenge for Homelessness and Community Change
- January, 2025
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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No CommentsThe City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Midtown Cultural Arts and Entertainment District have engaged Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR) to evaluate the HueMan: Shelter initiative, part of the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge. This initiative uses public art to address homelessness by involving unhoused individuals as contributing artists, fostering healing, dignity,... Read More -
The Bank Examination Questionnaire (BEQ)
- January, 2025
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has contracted with Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR) to conduct a national evaluation of banks’ experience with OCC’s examination and supervision process. The goal is to improve every institution’s experience with future supervision and the examination process. DIR sends monthly letters via postal mail to bank... Read More -
Austin Quality-of-Life Study: Addressing the Needs of Young Children and Their Caregivers
- January, 2025
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The City of Austin has engaged DIR to conduct a detailed quality-of-life study focused on young children and their caregivers in the Austin/Travis County area. This study will describe the demographics of this population, including underserved and diverse communities, and identify key factors affecting their quality of life, such as childcare, housing, transportation, and education.... Read More -
Job Corps Post-Separation National Data Collection
- January, 2025
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The National Office of Job Corps (OJC) has contracted with Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR) to administer post-separation surveys to eligible former Job Corps program participants. Job Corps is a national residential training and employment program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) designed to address the multiple barriers to employment faced by disadvantaged... Read More -
Moving Workers from Low-Wage to Living-Wage Jobs
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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In early 2016, BakerRipley (formerly Neighborhood Centers, Inc.) launched a workforce development program designed to support underemployed workers to successfully move from low-wage jobs to living-wage, middle-skill jobs that provide financial stability and contribute to the region’s economic growth. The program, ASPIRE, “links together employers, high-quality training opportunities, and hardworking people to fill middle-skill gaps... Read More -
NCR Medical Communications Strategy, Planning and Execution Support
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD), is responsible for oversight of healthcare delivery operations for the largest Joint Multi-Service Market in all the US Military Health Systems. These responsibilities include developing and implementing transformational solutions and business practices to increase patient enrollment and satisfaction, recapture care and drive down military and private sector... Read More -
Impact Evaluation of Program to Improve Educator Effectiveness
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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DIR, under subcontract to Mathematica Policy Research, will support the evaluation of the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program (TSL). The TSL program is designed to improve educator effectiveness by assisting states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and nonprofits to develop, implement, improve, or expand human capital management systems that measure performance and guide ongoing, targeted... Read More -
Evaluation of the Procedural Justice Informed Alternative Contempt (PJAC) Demonstration
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The national evaluation of the impact of the Procedural Justice Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) Demonstration, commissioned by the Office of Administration of Children & Families, will focus on factors such as the amount and regularity of child support payments, child support debt, the use of enforcement actions, and the employment and earnings of parents... Read More -
Follow-up Surveys to Test Alternative Rent Policies
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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HUD’s Rent Reform Demonstration gives participating housing agencies the opportunity to adopt new policies on a trial basis and to learn from a careful evaluation whether they achieve benefits for tenants and the housing agency. The primary goal of the randomized controlled trial study is to test the effects of an alternative rent policy on... Read More -
Study of Feedback for Teachers Based on Classroom Videos
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Jose Gonzalez
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funded the Impact Evaluation to Inform Teacher Preparation and Professional Development to learn more about how to improve the performance of novice and early career teachers effectively and efficiently. This two-year evaluation will assess a professional development method for giving individualized feedback to teachers based... Read More -
National Evaluation of a Literacy Intervention with Preschoolers
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Jose Gonzalez
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DIR conducted a 3-year national evaluation of the FY2003 Early Reading First (ERF) program. ERF was created to improve early reading and language instruction in existing programs for early childhood education, especially those programs that serve low-income families. A regression discontinuity (RD) design was used to determine the extent to which ERF funds and technical... Read More
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