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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 -
George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa (BEST) Phase II Evaluation
- August, 2023
- Posted by: Chau Khong
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Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR) has partnered with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to conduct the Phase II evaluation of the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa (BEST). BEST is a comprehensive, longitudinal place-based initiative designed to support children and families in the early years to help break the... 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 -
Technical Assistance to Regional Educational Laboratories and other IES researchers
- February, 2018
- Posted by: Chau Khong
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Through our work as the prime contractor with the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) on the Analytic Technical Assistance and Development (ATA&D) project, DIR provides technical assistance (TA) and support to the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) and other National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) researchers. An important part of this work... Read More -
Design of a Longitudinal Study of Middle Schoolers
- March, 2016
- Posted by: Jose Gonzalez
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The Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2016–17 (MGLS: 2017) is the first study to follow a nationally representative sample of students as they enter and move through the middle grades (6–8). The MGLS:2017 design team, led by DIR in partnership with Mathematica Policy Research and the Educational Testing Service (ETS), worked with staff at the... Read More -
Redesign of a Job Corps Career Matching Crosswalk
- December, 2015
- Posted by: Chau Khong
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DIR, under a subcontract with ASHLIN Management Group, supported the Career Technical Training conducted at 124 Job Corps centers around the U.S. for the Department of Labor. DIR staff helped ensure that curriculum standards met industry requirements, ensured the validity of mechanisms to measure training outcomes, and monitored the performance of training programs in 11... Read More -
Comprehensive Centers Evaluation
- October, 2010
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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DIR, under subcontract to Branch Associates, participated in the National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers for the U.S. Department of Education. The network of 16 Regional Centers and 5 Content Centers were established to help low-performing schools and districts close achievement gaps and meet the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act... Read More
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