The Effective Practices Team (EPT) serves to help the NCIEC achieve its outcome targets and programmatic responsibilities through the identification and use of research based, effective practices. The EPT identified and implements the effective practices protocol of the NCIEC. We began by identifying common terminology for our approach.

Project Proposal Analysis and Guidance towards Effective Practices: The team reviews every NCIEC proposed initiative to insure that its approach, practices, and activities satisfy the expectations of the NCIEC that our work reflects the highest standards of data collection, analysis, and evaluation of practices in order to demonstrate their effectiveness.

Data Collection Assistance. Our work has typically been focused on research design and instrument design, leaving the work teams to implement the surveys and data collection tools with which we have assisted.

Data Analysis Services. Teams that have gathered data receive a basic level of data analysis services focused on analysis and write up of standard surveys and data collection tools.

NCIEC Outcomes Review. To assist the Consortium in meeting its overall goals, the team developed an analysis of the GPRA standards for the RSA grant program that funds the consortium, and to either identify the RSA program outcome goals for this project or propose to RSA what we think they ought to be.

Please click on the links for snapshots of the work of the Effective Practices team throughout the grant:

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