Peter Schochet

The Youth CareerConnect program is designed to encourage America’s school districts, institutions of higher education, the workforce investment system, and their partners to scale up evidence-based high school models that will transform the high school experience for America’s youth.

This study for the U.S. Department of Education will identify and examine the effectiveness of specific adult education programs and services.

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration commissioned Mathematica to conduct a national random assignment evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker programs' effectiveness.

Mathematica is designing options to provide information to the field about ways to improve the effectiveness and deployment of paraprofessionals using the most credible scientific methods.

The study is looking at structural and service delivery changes to enhance Job Corps, the nation's largest and most comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk youth ages 16 through 24. The review builds on prior rigorous research demonstrating that the Job Corps has promise.

This nine-year study used a comparison group design to obtain a nationally representative estimate of the impact on participants’ reemployment services, training, employment, earnings, and other outcomes.

The study was the first nationally representative experimental evaluation of a federal employment and training program for disadvantaged youth. From late 1994 to early 1996, nearly 81,000 eligible applicants nationwide were randomly assigned to either a program or control group.

Mathematica provides analytic and technical support for the Regional Educational Laboratories as well as the general education community to systematically assess and create materials and training to advance education research and share best practices.

This study examines a new Department of Labor (DOL)-funded program that combines promising workforce strategies (career pathways) with promising juvenile justice strategies (expungement and diversion services).

For the past decade, Mathematica has provided analytic and technical support for rigorous education studies conducted by the RELs, including randomized controlled trials. Mathematica peer reviews a broad array of products, including plans and reports for descriptive studies, technical assistance products,...

For 10 years, the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the major source of public funding for employment and training services in the United States. WIA’s Adult and Dislocated Worker programs provided employment and training for low-income disadvantaged job seekers as well as workers laid off from...

Through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Congress established Job Corps, a national vocational and academic training program for disadvantaged youth ages 16 to 24. The program costs the federal government $1.6 billion a year, making it one of the most expensive education and training programs funded...

Senior Fellow Peter Schochet, Ph.D., talks about Mathematica's role in providing a randomized control trial of the Job Corps program, the first such study of a major education and training program to have that design.

Pressure to improve program performance and accountability while dealing with limited resources has led to a growing demand for rapid-cycle assessment. However, researchers conducting such assessments face a unique set of challenges that may affect their ability to evaluate programs effectively and objectively....