Appendix E

Appendix E

Outline for ISIS Promising Strategy Assessment

Outline

1. Executive Summary

2. Description

3. Target population(s)

4. Potential for substantial and sustained impacts on employment and self-sufficiency

   1. Theory

   2. Evaluation evidence

5. Field interest and feasibility

   1. Policy and program relevance

   2. Program implementation/operation requirements

   3. Current and planned implementations

6. Tests would be “next generation”

   1. Addresses substantial theoretical, policy, and practical questions

   2. Ideal strategy is innovative, promising, and insufficiently tested—innovative is not essential if promising and insufficiently tested

7. Strategy could support or be part of a well-articulated set of tests

   1. Random assignment is feasible on scale needed

   2. Tests of different versions of strategy, or tests combining/comparing strategy with/to other strategies to address wider themes, would be valuable

8. Conclusions

9. Citations (American Psychological Association format)

Appendix E