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Check out this blog post by David Evans and the associated journal article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… for a great set of CEA resources, especially if you are in the development field.

Here's a new example of a study that looks at costs as well as benefits of educational programs in an online learning setting. Courtesy of our very own Fiona Hollands and colleagues!

As COVID relief funds run out, districts will face reduced budgets in California and beyond. Cost analysis tools, like our cost-effectiveness (CE) plane one pager, could help districts decide how best to use available resources. edsource.org/2023/californi…

How can districts sustain investments in educational technology? This article offers some insights into eligible federal resources, but we'd recommend starting with a cost feasibility analysis in order to have robust estimates of how much programs cost edweek.org/technology/ed-…

The CAP Project Help Desk will be accepting new requests for free 1:1 assistance until April 14th. After that, our resources and online modules will remain freely available on the CAP Project website and we may offer free Q&A sessions from time to time. capproject.org

Need help in figuring out how best to report the results of your cost analysis or CEA? Check out the last of our series of 5 online modules on cost analysis, just released this week. You can now access all 5 modules: capproject.org/modules-welcome

Have you checked out our last online module yet on Reporting Cost Analysis Results? The Reporting Readiness Checklist is a great resource to help you assess whether you are ready to begin the final stage of your cost study. capproject.org/modules-welcome

Another event coming up on June 14 from the Costing Community of Practice, this time on low cost and scalable interventions in the justice sector cega.berkeley.edu/event/costing-…

Benefits and costs to learners of participating in non-degree credentials are addressed in this webcast. Next question is whether such credentials are valuable enough to employers to merit their financial support for employees earning them. youtube.com/watch?v=8TwDyW…

Submitting an IES Research proposal this summer? 3 things to help you: blog below about our online modules; Q&A session we'll be offering in late August; updated chart on IES' cost analysis reqs; static1.squarespace.com/static/5eb0d7c…. SREE AERA

Have questions about the cost analysis requirements for this year's IES RFAs? We are offering a free TA session, joined by an IES program officer, on Tues 8/29 at 2-3pm Eastern time. Register here norc.zoom.us/meeting/regist… IES Research SREE

Reminder that we are offering a free TA session shortly (2pm ET) about the cost analysis and CEA reqs/recs in the IES RFAs. IES Research Program Officer Katie Taylor will join us to help answer your questions. Register here norc.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Just posted slides, script, and recording from yesterday's TA session on how to address cost analysis and CEA reqs/recs in this year's IES Research RFAs on our home page capproject.org. Lots of really useful questions asked and answered, thanks everyone who participated!

When doing cost analysis in education using a societal perspective, don't forget to ask teachers how much of their own money they might be spending on classroom supplies. cnn.com/2023/09/02/bus…

Happy new year! Nothing quite like spending the holidays polishing IES Research proposals for a 1/11 due date. Have you included attention to costs of the interventions you are studying? Our updated chart summarizes cost analysis requirements for each RFA: static1.squarespace.com/static/5eb0d7c…

Good to see others applying the Standards for the Economic Evaluation of Educational and Social Programs to CEAs. We should all consult these as we plan our own studies - staying realistic about how many we can meet on our budgets doi.org/10.1037/spq000… air.org/project/cost-a…

Just what you need on Valentine's Day: an updated database of national average fringe benefit rates. Available in E$timator costtoolkit.org or capproject.org/resources. You can use 55.39% as a standard rate for K-12 educators ($55.39 of fringe on top of each $100 earned).

Just posted an updated database of national avg prices in E$timator costtoolkit.org and at capproject.org/resources, thanks to Yuan Chang Ginsberg. One new addition: home office space $15.94/hr which you can then amortize over a period of time like 30 yrs.

Revised chart on IES Research cost analysis/CEA requirements just posted to include the Spec Ed research RFAs issued yesterday. Like the regular research program, pretty much unchanged in WHEN to use these methods but less prescriptive on how. capproject.org/resources

Good to see Rebecca Maynard's article on meta-analysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… stressing the need for attention to costs in evaluations of educational programs. Includes a welcome shout-out for our online modules on cost analysis/CEA capproject.org/modules-welcome.