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With this brief, we’ll give you the background on: why schools and districts are asking, more than ever before, about evidence of your product’s success before they commit to using it; how to responsibly address these questions through an evaluation of your product, including key considerations before engaging in evaluation and what to expect during the evaluation process; best practices for ensuring the evaluation of your product is insightful and actionable; and the types of evaluation necessary to use federal funds to purchase.

This McREL issue brief was prepared by Faith Connolly, Mathias Smrekar, and Hsiang-Yeh Ho in May, 2020.

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