In 2011, the UPNCS program in Queensland was evaluated, and in this paper we draw on data from the state-wide evaluation of the program.
Recently MDRC, a research organization that assesses social policies, published its evaluation of the program.
The museum will hire an outside consultant to conduct a formal evaluation of the program.
Nonetheless, the short-term results are similar to those found in an earlier evaluation of the program by Charles Mallar, then at Mathematica.
In 1998, Congress required the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct the first rigorous national evaluation of the program.
Mathematica's "National Job Corps Study" (www.ttrc.doleta.gov /opr/FULLTEXT/jobcorps/Outcomes/), financed by the Labor Department, presents initial results of the most scientifically rigorous evaluation of the program ever done.
The federal evaluation of the program said that 82% of the students receiving vouchers graduated from high school, as compared to 70% of the students who applied to the voucher program and were not accepted.
Mr. Villalobos said the deaf officers — "our silent angels," he called them — had helped solve or assisted in several cases, though he declined to provide specific data, pending a future evaluation of the program.
An evaluation of the program revealed that 91 percent of those who ultimately received E.M.D.R. therapy graduated from the program, compared with only 62 percent who did not receive it.
This study uses data collected for a mixed-method, participatory evaluation of the program in Mali.
The authors received external funding to provide an objective impact evaluation of the program.
