Through a worked example, this paper reports on a methodological approach, Intervention Component Analysis (ICA),...
Core Components Research
By identifying and analyzing the fundamental elements that make programs effective, core components research helps improve scalability, replicability, and overall impact. Explore the latest findings that are shaping evidence-based policymaking and advancing the understanding of what truly drives successful outcomes in the social sector.
Evaluation Policy for the Department of Health and Human Services
In response to the Evidence Act, the Office of Management and Budget issued M-20-12, a memorandum that provides...
Combining Core Components and User-Designed Systems to Build the Next Generation of Evidence-Based Policy
This report examines current approaches to Evidence Based Policy and its success and failure in meaningfully improving...
What Are Core Components…and Why Do They Matter?
This brief summarizes the implementation of core components and the successful implementation of evidence-based...
Define Core Components
Provides definitions and a worksheet to clarify a program's core components....
What Do We Mean by Core Components?
Presentation on five steps for advancing the use of core components of effective programs with case studies:...
Criteria for Assessing Grant Applications: A Systematic Review
Conducted a qualitative content analysis of the 12 studies and thereby identified 15 evaluation criteria and 30...
Exploring Core Components Research in Social Services Settings
Summarizes key themes from the 2020 Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation Methods Meeting on using core...
Key Elements of Employment Programs: Strategies from the Field for Identifying, Implementing, and Sustaining Core Components
An overview of the current literature and efforts to identify core components of evidence-based programs. Next, the...
Comparing Variations in Implementation Processes and Influences Across Multiple Sites: What Works, For Whom, and How?
This paper outlines the matrixed multiple case study approach. many implementation trials seek to understand not only...
Better Reporting of Interventions: Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) Checklist and Guide
To improve the completeness of reporting, and ultimately the replicability, of interventions, an international group...
Cost-effectiveness of the Adaptive Implementation of Effective Programs Trial (ADEPT): Approaches to Adopting Implementation Strategies
The purpose of this study is to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis to identify the most cost-effective approach to...
Using a Behaviour Change Techniques Taxonomy to Identify Active Ingredients Within Trials of Implementation Interventions for Diabetes Care
This article aimed to apply the recently developed Behaviour Change Techniques Taxonomy version 1 to trials of...
Methodologies for optimizing behavioral interventions: introduction to special section
This report discusses isolating intervention components that are more or less effective in the context of behavior...
The Sustainability of Evidence-Based Interventions and Practices in Public Health and Health Care
This review critically examines and discusses conceptual and methodological issues in studying sustainability,...
Evidence-based Kernels: Fundamental Units of Behavioral Influence
This paper describes evidence-based kernels, fundamental units of behavioral influence that appear to underlie...
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Rationale for Taxonomic versus Conventional Meta-Analysis
The primary objective of this paper is to introduce taxonomic meta-analysis and explain how it is different from...
The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) and the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART): New Methods for More Potent eHealth Interventions
In this article two new methods for building and evaluating e-health interventions are described. The first is the...
Core Components of Programs Focused on Optimal Health
First, they provide a brief description of the core components approach. They then describe the methods we used to...
A Core Components Framework for Evaluating Implementation of Competency-Based Medical Education Programs
Competency-based medical education (CBME): examining “fidelity of implementation”—that is, whether CBME is being...
Core Intervention Components: Identifying and Operationalizing What Makes Programs Work
This brief is a product of an ASPE awarded contract that was designed to assemble the latest thinking and knowledge on...
Developing Evidence-based Practice: Externalizing Behavior Problems | Guidelines for Youth Programs
This report describes and illustrates an approach to using evidence to improve the effectiveness of youth programs....
Core Components Approaches to Building Evidence of Program Effectiveness
Summary and linked products that represent ASPE’s current work on core components approaches to building evidence of program effectiveness.
Advancing the Use of Core Components of Effective Programs: Suggestions for Researchers Publishing Evaluation Results
Describes what core components of effective programs are, some benefits of using this approach, how and why they developed these suggestions, and then provide suggestions for reporting on setting, participant, program, and implementation characteristics.
Identifying and selecting the common elements of evidence based interventions: a distillation and matching model
A model is proposed whereby the intervention literature can be empirically factored or distilled to derive profiles...
Understanding the Common Elements of Evidence-Based Practice: Misconceptions and Clinical Examples
The report discusses evidence-based practices in the field of mental health; specifically a distillation and matching...
Improving Social Competence Programs for Children and Youth
This guide takes research on which types of youth programs are effective at improving social competence and translates...
Improving Programs for Children and Youth that Address Behavioral Problems
This guide takes research on which types of youth programs are effective at reducing externalizing behaviors and...
Improving the Effectiveness of Programs for Youth: Two Complementary Paths to Apply Evidence
This brief presents two ways practitioners can use evidence to improve the effectiveness of their programs: adopting and installing evidence-based programs (EBPs) and incorporating a core components approach. The brief discusses key differences and considerations.
“The How” of “What Works:” The Importance of Core Components in Education Research
Introduction to core components and discussion of the difference between how a program produces results and why a program is effective.
The Case for Component-based Research in Education
This paper, describes an alternative way of doing research, compatible with the field’s existing strengths, that may pave the way to address these challenges. “Component-based research” (CBR) is a paradigm that is oriented toward advancing education improvement by embracing shared language, collaborative knowledge development, shared resources, and analytic approaches driven by meeting the needs of local contexts, conditions, and populations.
2019 Gene Report: Identifying the Core Components of Success along the STEM Pipeline
Summarizes The STEM Genome, an initiative of The Impact Genome Project (IGP)® , which seeks to capture what STEM education interventions and programs adaquetly prepare youth for our increasingly technology-driven, and industry and economy. The STEM Genome examines a large body of research and evaluations on STEM education interventions, systematically codifying the information into frameworks that translate across program types, varying outcomes, and diverse stakeholders.
Mapping evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents: application of the distillation and matching model to 615 treatments from 322 randomized trials
This study applied the distillation and matching model to 322 randomized clinical trials for child mental health treatments. This is the 1st study to aggregate evidence-based treatment protocols empirically according to their constituent treatment procedures, and the results point both to the overall organization of therapy procedures according to matching factors and to gaps in the current child and adolescent treatment literature.
Continuous Quality Improvement in Afterschool Settings: Impact findings from the Youth Program Quality Intervention study
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI), a data-driven continuous improvement model for afterschool systems.
Overviews in Education Research: A Systematic Review and Analysis
The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence and current state of overviews of education research and to provide further guidance for conducting overviews and advance the evolution of overview methods.
Motivation Interventions in Education: A Meta-Analytic Review
This meta-analysis provides an extensive and organized summary of intervention studies in education that are grounded...
Effects of After-School Programs with At-Risk Youth on Attendance and Externalizing Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis, following Campbell Collaboration guidelines, examined the effects of...
Core Intervention Components: Identifying and Operationalizing What Makes Programs Work
This report describes and illustrates an approach to using evidence to improve the effectiveness of youth programs,...
Developing a Core Components Nomenclature in Education: An Update on IES-funded work
This presentation was prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). This update describes IES-funded efforts to advance understanding of effective education practices through consistent reporting of intervention components.
Evidence for Program Improvement: Core Components of Effective Youth Programs
Evidence for Program Improvement was established by The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to develop evidence-based practice guidelines for youth programs using a core components approach.
Core Components
Describes theory-based and empiraically derived principles, contextual factors, structural elements, and specific...
Developing Evidence-based Practice Guidelines for Youth Programs
Describes an approach to using evidence to improve the effectiveness of youth programs, both in terms of how they are...
Advancing the Use of Core Components of Effective Programs
Defines core components and the benefits, and provides recommendations and steps for utilizing core components of...