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Formative Evaluation Toolkit

Metadata Updated: September 6, 2025

This toolkit, which is primarily intended for child welfare agencies and professionals to use in partnership with their evaluators, introduces the concept of formative evaluation, a method for evaluating programs during early implementation in order to inform program improvement and assess readiness for rigorous summative evaluation.

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Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 6, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 6, 2025
Publisher Administration for Children and Families
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2025-09-04
Data Last Modified 2025-09-05
Category ACF
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:70
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Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/d/g94b-pdmd
Program Code 009:045
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 6f46b590b8b83b7b14583a1d20771000b5da91d07b40dacc3f141e125ec7ca19
Source Schema Version 1.1

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