Multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration has become a key feature of comparative effectiveness research … (CER), and CER funders have made promotion of these types of collaboration an implicit, and sometimes explicit, goal of … funding. An important challenge in evaluating CER programs is understanding if and how different forms of collaboration are …

Data Project (SDP) and Education Pioneers (EP) programs, which aim to enhance the capacity of school districts and other … education agencies to collect, manage, analyze, and use data through the support, training, and placement of additional staff …