| Principal Investigator: | Daniel Schroeder, PhD |
| Sponsor: | Texas Workforce Commission |
| Project Duration: | May 2019 – April 2022 |
| Description: | Researchers from the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) will conduct a study of the cost of providing quality child care in the state of Texas, the purpose of which is to provide estimates of how much more additional funding, in terms of daily rates, should be paid to providers who meet quality standards to care for children, relative to how much providers who do not meet such standards are paid. The study will be done in conjunction with the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing (TICFW), who will be responsible for consulting on the design of a pair of surveys to capture important quality factors and pricing information, and fielding the surveys to carefully selected samples of home- and center-based child care facilities. |
| Reports Available: | The reports for this project are published through the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing at the University of Texas at Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work. The following reports are available on their website. |
Summer Melt Follow-up
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | Harvard University |
| Project Duration: | January 2019 – June 2019 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center will work with local Independent School Districts to collect and manage data across multiple systems, ensuring data integrity and consistency for regional participants. This work may include direct collection of non-administrative data from students using an on line survey, depending on district preference and capacity to collect such information on-site. Regardless, the Center will coordinate with local ISDs to ensure consistency across surveys. Outcomes will be collected on participating and non-participating students using National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data. The Center will coordinate with local ISDs to submit a file to NSC. The Center will process the return file, de-identify the individual-level data and provide this information to the evaluation team at Harvard University.
Original project Summer Melt-IES: Digital Messaging for Improving College Enrollment and Success can be viewed here. |
| Reports Available: |
ASPIRE Program Impact Evaluation Services
| Principal Investigator: | Heath J. Prince PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | Decision Information Resources, Inc via BakerRipley |
| Project Duration: | January 2019 – June 2020 |
| Description: | BakerRipley (formerly Neighborhood Centers, Inc.) launched ASPIRE in early 2016 as a workforce development program designed to support underemployed workers in the Houston, Texas area 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. Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR) is a Houston-based minority-owned research and evaluation firm that has been involved in evaluating workforce development programs over the full course of its 34-year history.
An impact evaluation of ASPIRE will focus on comparing outcomes for program participants with program non-participants in order to measure the effectiveness of program participation. BakerRipley indicates that the impact evaluation seeks to answer the broad research question: Are ASPIRE candidates’ lives better off? And if so, by how much? The specific questions to be addressed by this impact evaluation per the ASPIRE Evaluation Plan are:
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| Reports Available: |
Building a Workforce Data Blueprint
| Principal Investigator: | Heath J. Prince PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | Michael and Susan Dell Foundation |
| Project Duration: | January 2019 – September 2019 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center will provide research support to the WinDDOWS project, funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and implemented by the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. The goal of the WinDDOWS project is to develop a workforce data infrastructure implementation blueprint. |
| Reports Available: |
Central Texas Talent HUB
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and Lumina Foundation |
| Project Duration: | January 2018 – December 2018 |
| Description: | Many former college entrants interrupt their education prior to completing their degree, either dropping out completely or later returning to college. These non-completing individuals have college experience, familiarity with the application process, college credits, and knowledge of course enrollment procedures. These individuals represent a source of ready and readily accessible potential workers to whom the region could support to re-enter and complete college, increasing the labor pool of those possessing critical skills and knowledge needed in the local labor market. With direct contact information collected while in college and a repository of information about them, the Austin community intends to target this population for re-enrollment through advertising and other outreach efforts.
Researchers seek to examine stop-out patterns, barriers leading to stop-out behaviors, and assess potential solutions to re-enroll students, eventually measuring the extent to which these efforts increased the number and share of individuals returning to and completing college. |
| Reports Available: |
Project QUEST Evaluation
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, PhD |
| Sponsor: | Economic Mobility Corporation, Inc |
| Project Duration: | January 2018 – December 2023 |
| Description: | Project QUEST provides employment training and services aligned with the skills most in demand by San Antonio, Texas employers. The Ray Marshall Center will be working with the Economic Mobility Corporation, Inc (Mobility) and building around their recent program evaluation of Project QUEST. This innovative partnership links both QUEST participants and similar non-participants to Texas Unemployment Insurance wage records. By combining self-reported and administrative data, the research will seek to verify self-reported outcomes, enhance the longitudinal tracking of employment and earnings both prior to and after completing QUEST, and measure long-term impacts of program participation. |
| Reports Available: |
Community Workforce Plan Evaluation
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, PhD |
| Sponsor: | Workforce Solutions Capital Area |
| Project Duration: | January 2018 – March 2022 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) has partnered with Workforce Solutions Capital Area (WFSCA) to evaluate the progress of the Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan. The objective of the Master Plan is to effectively engage employers, community-based organizations, and educational institutions to more efficiently match employers’ skill needs and successfully prepare economically disadvantaged residents for family-sustaining careers. The RMC will investigate the educational and labor market outcomes of workforce development program participants, as well as variations in such results associated with demographic, personal, educational, and programmatic service regimes of the participants. RMC staff will work with WFSCA staff and area training providers to identify paths to the successful implementation of the Master Plan. |
| Reports Available: | Austin Metro Area Community Workforce Plan Year Two Evaluation Report Authors: Greg Cumpton, Cynthia Juniper, and Ashweeta Patnaik Date: September 2020 Publication Type: Report, 50pp. Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan Year One Evaluation Report Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan Baseline Evaluation Report Family Work Support Benefits: An assessment of food and child care supports in the Austin, Texas metro area (MCWP Supplement: Poverty) |
Impact Evaluation of SAEP Scholarship
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, PhD |
| Sponsor: | San Antonio Education Partnership |
| Project Duration: | February 2018 – December 2018 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center entered into an agreement with the San Antonio Education Partnership to conduct an impact analysis to answer four research questions, a description of the study population, data and methodology used, and a review of the existing research that attempts to answer similar questions about the relationship between grant aid and student outcomes. The four research questions are the following:
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| Reports Available: |
Einstein Project: Austin Youth STEM-CE Community Alignment Study
| Principal Investigator(s): | Heath J. Prince, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | City of Austin |
| Project Duration: | November 2017 – May 2019 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center entered into an interlocal agreement with the City of Austin for process development, data collection, and analysis of youth-focused programs in science, technology, engineering, math, creative, and entrepreneurship workforce development programs.
Ray Marshall Center researchers will work with stakeholders, workforce organizations, local businesses, and local school districts, using a collective impact model framework, to establish regional baseline metrics to classify and assess current youth focused programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Creative, and Entrepreneurship (STEM-CE) for study and careers. Through the course of this assessment, the RMC will develop appropriate measurement instruments and techniques, produce a report describing current relevant activities, and propose methods and processes for the future evaluation of youth STEM-CE programming. This assessment of Austin STEM-CE programming will provide insight as to how scarce public resources can be leveraged to secure private participation in the development of a future pipeline of workforce, filled by the city’s current youth in poverty, which will connect to quality jobs in Austin’s future economy. Findings will be used to propose policy recommendations for Mayor and Council to consider that will enable program development or expansion to properly encourage students from backgrounds in poverty to enter into STEM-CE fields of study and careers. Some goals of future STEM-CE interventions may include changing attitudes about STEM-CE fields among students participating in such related programming, as well as improving their academic performance in STEM-CE subjects. |
| Reports Available: |
Nuru Nigeria Evaluation Plan
| Principal Investigator(s): | Heath J. Prince, PhD and Ashweeta Patnaik, MPH (Co-Principal Investigator) |
| Sponsor(s): | Nuru International |
| Project Duration: | September 2017 – December 2017 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) has partnered with Nuru International to write a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan for Nuru’s anticipated programming in Nigeria. The plan will include an exhaustive literature review, a review of Nuru’s past approaches to evaluation, a review of poverty measures, a review of Nuru’s Leadership Sustainability Index (LSI), suggested methods, and suggested survey tools. The planning process will include expert consultation, interviews with Nuru staff, document review, literature review, and overall close coordination with personnel on the Nuru International team. |
| Reports Available: | Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Nuru Nigeria Author: Ray Marshall Center Date: November 2018 Publication Type: Report, 33pp. This report is commissioned by Nuru International. |
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