One pager to accompany slides.

1. Open Platforms & Data Smarts:
How We Can Do Good Better
Greg.Weeks@ofm.wa.go
v
360.902.0660
Greg Weeks, Ph.D.
JennaL@workforcedqc.org
202.223.8355, ext. 114
Jenna Leventoff
Vinz_Koller@spra.co
m
831.277.4726
Vinz Koller
kwolff@thinkers-and-doers.com
503.888.1022
Kristin Wolff
NAWB Panel Session Resources
March 13, 2016
About SPR and WDQI
SPR has provided technical assistance to three rounds of grant-supported
Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI) projects in a combined twenty-
nine states. WDQI is supported by the US Department of Labor and works
closely with its sister program in the US Department of Education – the
Standard Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) initiative. WDQI states are
building data systems that link labor, education, and related program data,
making it possible to track student progress from pre-kindergarten through
participation in the labor force, while protecting individual privacy. For the
first time, participating states are able to determine the effects of different
programs and interventions on people with different circumstances and
characteristics over time and across communities – without long, costly
one-off studies. Together, we are building the intelligence systems
required for evidence-based policy making and meaningful, ongoing labor
market analysis, one dataset at a time.
www.spra.com
www.doleta.gov/performance/workforcedataquality.cfm
The Power of Longitudinal Data
Systems (Video)
http://bit.ly/24PLwUL
NAWB Slide Deck
(with links & references)
http://bit.ly/1UZSBxQ