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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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    Activities That Support Improvement in a Part C SIMR

    The presentation providing guiding questions to help states connect SSIP Phase I and Phase II planning.

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    Building State Capacity About Key Measurement and Evaluation Issues

    The workshop focused on three IDC SSIP white papers: Implications of Growth Modeling for SSIP; Performance Indicators As a Tool for Measuring Progress Toward a SIMR; and Considerations for Making Changes to SIMR Baseline and Targets. During the workshop, participants were able to talk to and learn from participants from other states and provide input for the development of IDC white papers that address growth modeling, measuring progress toward a SIMR, and changing baseline and targets. The three white papers are currently in draft form and undergoing revisions based on input from the field. Published papers will be posted to the IDC Resource Library and affiliated as companion resources to the handout posted for this session.

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    State Part C Teams Discuss Their Experiences With the SSIP and SIMR Process

    The presentation focuses on experiences of State Part C teams in analyzing data, selecting their SIMR, and completing their SSIP. Guiding questions help states connect Phase I and Phase II planning.

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    Collecting and Using Data on Improvement Strategies

    Information focuses on ways to collect and use data on coherent improvement strategies and assess gaps in existing data for evaluation and provides examples of existing data or information states are already collecting (e.g., through monitoring) and how to use that data to measure SSIP activities. A helpful handout is included.

    Format: Presentations

    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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    Understanding and Effectively Engaging Stakeholders in Data Use (DaSy Framework)

    The presentation offers information about how the DaSy Data System Framework supports stakeholder engagement as a component of high-quality Part C and Section 619 data systems. A helpful handout is included.