Process Evaluations and Qualitative Research Projects
Featured Project:
Effective Health Care Program Governance & National Priority-Setting: An Appreciative Inquiry & Evaluation Study
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The conduct of interviews, case studies, and an Appreciative Inquiry Workshop with EHC program staff and stakeholders
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The design and administration of a web-based survey to gather quantitative inputs from stakeholders
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The conduct of a cross-organization comparison of approaches with international organizations engaged in a similar mission to the EHC program.
Community Colleges as the Classroom for America’s Workforce: Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the Field in Working with the Public Workforce System
Client: Center for Program Planning and Results of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM), U.S. Department of LaborThe purpose of this project is to study a sample of community colleges to identify challenges, promising strategies and best practices regarding retraining America’s workforce for in-demand industries. Specific tasks being performed include:
- Identifying sample community college sites
- Conducting site visits, which include in-depth interviews and focus groups with stakeholders
- Collecting additional data such as web-based surveys, Workforce Investment Act Standardized Record Data (WIASRD), data from the Federal Research and Evaluation Database (FRED), evaluation data from the High Growth Job Training Initiative and Community-Based Job Training Grants, and data from the IMPAQ’s completed WIA Net-Impact Evaluation
- Conducting qualitative and quantitative data analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between community colleges and local workforce development systems.
The final deliverable for this project is a Final Report summarizing the results of the analysis and providing appropriate recommendations to DOL.
Longitudinal Program Evaluation of HHS Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) National Action Plan (NAP)
Client: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesIn response to the preventable toll that healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) have had on human life and healthcare expenditures, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the HHS Draft National Action Plan (NAP) to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in January 2009. Congress responded to the Draft NAP and funded operative divisions of HHS to begin the implementation of the plan with funds included in the FY 09 appropriations and funds from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
During this project, IMPAQ will develop and implement an iterative longitudinal comprehensive program evaluation framework of the Healthcare Associated Infections National Action Plan (HAI NAP). This evaluation will employ the Context-Input-Process-Product (CIPP) evaluation model to assess overall initiative impacts, outcomes, and the adoption and diffusion of HAI interventions using both qualitative and quantitative assessment approaches. The results of the ongoing evaluations will be used to provide feedback that will guide improvements to the ongoing and future programs and initiatives of the HAI NAP. Specifically, we will look at the leadership and strategy of the HAI NAP, knowledge development, infrastructure development, HAI prevention practice adoption, and the effects on stakeholder. Thus, this project will involve interviews with agency leaders, key stakeholders, and NAP work group members; document and literature reviews; review of HHS data systems; online surveys; and focus groups.
Communication Dissemination Evaluation
Child Care Services Program Assessment and Benchmarking Study
Process Evaluation for the National Reemployment Technical Assistance Initiative
Evaluation Synthesis
Applying Lessons Learned in Community Collaboration to Health IT
Client: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesTo augment AHRQ’s existing health IT research, this project focuses on stakeholder collaboration and how models of community planning and development, both in healthcare and other industries, can be used for establishing sustainable Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO) and health information exchange (HIE) activities. In particular, the project seeks to identify characteristics that distinguish successful and unsuccessful community efforts to collaborate on shared benefits, which can then be replicated to support RHIO and HIE development. For this project, IMPAQ is:
- Conducting a comprehensive environmental scan of the literature related to community planning and development, and RHIO and HIE initiatives
- Convening an “Innovation Meeting” comprised of RHIO and HIE leaders, and national and international community planning experts who will assess the applicability of community collaboration models to sustainable RHIOs and HIE, including identifying best practices, illustrative models, and case studies
- Preparing a final report synthesizing results and findings from the environmental scan and “Innovation Meeting”, as well as presenting recommendations for ongoing research, implementation, and policy work in the RHIO and HIE fields
- Developing, executing, and evaluating a communication/dissemination plan that will drive awareness and integration of project findings and recommendations into practice at national, state, and local levels
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