Resources

Tools and materials to guide your team through your fast-cycle iteration journey

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Fast-Cycle Iteration

A fillable Fast-Cycle Iteration Worksheet to help your team plan a ToC-based evaluation.

A report from the Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation.

A brief case study on how the Forming Bonds in Adversity (Formação de Vínculo na Adversidade) team engaged in fast cycle iteration to understand and improve their impact.

The fast-cycle iteration worksheet of the program followed throughout the Toolkit.

Co-Creation

A resource from Organizing Engagement that reviews key definitions and concepts in participatory action research

A resource from Facilitating Power that describes a spectrum of engagement from ignoring to deferring to.

A brief case study on how the Very Cool Dads (Padres Muy Padres) team engaged in co-creation to ensure their program met the needs of fathers in their community.

Theory of Change

A fillable ToC template your team can use to draft a ToC, following the steps outlined in the Toolkit.

A ToC poster template your team can print, using the specified dimensions, to draft a ToC following the steps outlined in the Toolkit.

Theory of Change examples shared by teams who have used the IDEAS framework in the context of their work.

The TOC of the program followed throughout the Toolkit (in English and Spanish).

Evaluation

A free tool that allows anyone interested in early childhood measurement and evaluation to search, compare, and access measures scored on four key categories of usability, cost, cultural relevance, and technical merit.

Provides technical assistance based on the IDEAS Impact Framework to programs and organizations across various sectors within the early childhood ecosystem.

A resource from the World Bank that offers guidance for selection and adaptation of early childhood measures for use in countries that are low-and-middle-income.

This resource from the Administration for Children and Families provides practical guidelines for planning and implementing evaluation of programs for children and families.

NCIT offers a variety of resources to help innovators in the field of early childhood measure impact.

Program Development, Implementation, and Scaling

Information and resources on implementation science

A framework to help program developers, evaluators, funders and policy makers attend to factors that can improve implementation and scaling of evidence-based programs.

A position paper highlighting an organization’s activities, actions and organizational changes as they work towards embedding an anti-racist approach in research and design.

A nonprofit dedicated to supporting and connecting innovators in the field of early childhood.

Ideas framework in action

Publications about programs that have used the IDEAS Framework

“Evidence for attachment vitamins: a trauma-informed universal prevention programme for parents of young children”

“Effects of an Online Play-Based Parenting Program on Child Development and the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial”

“A Personalized Remote Video-Feedback Universal Parenting Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial”

“Development and nationwide implementation of a post discharge responsive parenting intervention program for very preterm born children: The TOP program”

“Development and evaluation of a fidelity tool in a post-discharge responsive parenting intervention program for very preterm born children”

References

A list of articles related to the IDEAS Impact Framework

Download the article reference sheet

Resources

Fast-Cycle Iteration

Fast-Cycle Iteration Worksheet

Rapid Learning Methods: Methods to Examine and Improve Social Programs

Forming Bonds in Adversity: Fast-Cycle Iteration In Action

The El Busesito Fast-Cycle Iteration Worksheet

Co-Creation

Participatory Action Research and Evaluation

The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership

Very Cool Dads: Co-creation in Action

Theory of Change

Theory of Change PowerPoint template

Printable Theory of Change workshop poster

Theory of Change examples library

The El Busesito Theory of Change

Evaluation

IMPACT Measures Tool

EC PRISM

Measuring Child Development: A Toolkit for Doing it Right

The Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation, Second Edition

National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers

Program Development, Implementation, and Scaling

National Implementation Research Network

RE-AIM

Dartington Service Design Lab

Promise Venture Studio

Publications about programs that have used the IDEAS Framework

Attachment Vitamins

Programa BEM

Strengthening Bonds

TOP

TOP

A list of articles related to the IDEAS Impact Framework