How and Why Funders Support Engaged Research: A Perspective from a Public Funder
Funders of science and evidence-related activities are critical players in the overall evidence building and use system. This blog will highlight how funders play an important role in supporting evidence use.
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Will AI Replace Knowledge Brokers?
New generative AI tools, may offer an easily accessible, quick way for policymakers or practitioners to tap research without waiting for researchers to do a systematic synthesis of the research or even the time it takes to reach out to a researcher to set up a conversation.
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Applying Bayesian Methods in the Evaluation of Employment Coaching Programs
OPRE’s explores innovative statistical methods and ways they might be applied to generate evidence on human services programs, and we recently released a publication highlighting Bayesian methods and their applications in program evaluation.
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What Does it Mean to Use Evidence Well?
It is important for policy to be using the most rigorous evidence available, but equally important is how we conceptualize the quality of evidence use.
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Broadening the Lens of Evidence Use
Reports that evidence isn’t used in policy may be greatly exaggerated. There has been much discussion about a research-to-policy gap, but is it actually a gap or a narrow view endemic in discussions of evidence use?
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Brokers, Intermediaries, Boundary Spanners, Oh My! Evidence Use Partnerships
Individuals or organizations who have a foot in both the research and the practice or policy world are key to supporting evidence use.
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What Do We Know About How Organizations Can Support Evidence Use?
Research about when, why, and how evidence is used identifies the importance of social interactions and organizational norms that support evidence use. Explore more in this blog post.
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Improving our Understanding of How Family Strengthening Programs Can Address and Prevent Domestic Violence
As we observe Domestic Violence Awareness month this October, we renew our commitment to learning how to promote the safety of domestic violence survivors and end violence in the communities we serve. We are committed in our research to providing information that can help in identifying domestic violence, working with those impacted by domestic violence, and promoting the safety of domestic violence survivors.
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New Compendiums to Support Linking Data for Research
Data analysts and researchers interested in taking greater advantage of rich administrative data sources for their work will want to take a closer look at two new resources recently released by OPRE.
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Welcome to the OPRE Insights Blog!
Introductory post launching the "OPRE Insights" blog as a new way to share what we’re doing and thinking here at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE).
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