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    Maximize the Return on Your Data Investment: Planning and Documentation for Data Collection and Analysis

    The presentation provides guidance on the importance of planning for data collection and analysis and documenting findings and decisions to facilitate reporting. Information also focuses on essential elements in planning and documenting data collection and analysis and how to maximize the efficiency and utility of state efforts to use data to make mid-course corrections to collection or analysis plans. Helpful handouts are included.

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    Child Outcomes and Data Quality

    The presentation provides strategies for making predictions of the ways in which improvements in data quality will impact the summary statements and describes different ways to impact and measure changes in data quality over time. This can help states currently struggling to predict how improvements in data quality will impact the value of the summary statements describing child outcomes. Helpful handouts are included.

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    The Data Are in the Details: Translating Evaluation Questions Into Detailed Analytical Questions

    Information helps states recognize the need for wording evaluation questions differently for different purposes and audiences. The presentation provides steps for developing detailed questions for analysis. Clearly articulated analytical questions can help states determine what data are needed to answer the questions and more efficiently and effectively obtain the answers they need to use data to support success in the SSIP.