The ADA training offers a unique opportunity, particularly for government agency staff, as courses are developed through the direct use of restricted-use microdata to answer real, present policy questions they face and introduce practical, open-source tools that can be used after training ends.

Training Schedule

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K-12 and Beyond: Leveraging SLDS Systems to Understand Long-Term Outcomes

Coleridge will deliver four fully subsidized Applied Data Analytics training programs for state government employees and their partners focused on education pathways between high school, college, and the workforce, and evaluating the intermediate and long-term outcomes associated with these pathways. The classes will be developed in partnership with the State of New Jersey, using the New Jersey Statewide Data System, and are sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Accepted class participants will learn and apply data analytic approaches such as record linkage, measurement creation, and data visualization to restricted-use linked K-12, postsecondary, and workforce data provided by the State of New Jersey and accessed inside the Coleridge Initiative’s award-winning Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF). Prospective participants are expected to apply as project teams (more in the following section), and should not plan on providing their own data as part of the training.

The first two programs will begin on June 9, 2025, and the latter two will begin on July 7, 2025. The courses are designed with the understanding that it is difficult for state agency staff to make time for professional development, and participants are expected to devote no more than 2 to 4 hours a week to the endeavor. More information on the schedule is available below.

Enhancing Labor Market Insights with Jobs Data

In partnership with the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) and the National Labor Exchange (NLx) Research Hub, the Coleridge Initiative will be delivering a training program focused on job demand data use and how to align it to skills and credentials in state administrative data. The course will be offered in October 2024 and January 2025. By the end of the course, participants will have the tools and experience necessary to create data products and actionable insights that:

Enhance existing LMI efforts such as occupational forecasts through supplements to traditional sources of labor market data. 

Better communicate the changing needs of labor markets across the nation.

More effectively examine how skills and credential attainment align to job demand by industry, geography—such as subregion, metro classification, and state—and worker characteristics.

Exploring the Diverse Paths to Invention of U.S.-trained Doctoral Scientists and Engineers 

In partnership with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation, we are hosting this hybrid course with on-site meetings at the National Science Foundation. Participants will work in teams to define and complete a project using the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR, provided by NCSES) linked with United States Patent data (public data provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office). 

The program begins on May 23rd. Most of the class will be remote, but there will be in-person meetings on June 4th-5th, June 27th, and August 13th for the final presentation in NSF’s headquarters.

Evaluating Enrollment to Employment Pathways

Coleridge, sponsored by ETA and in partnership with NASWA and the state of Arkansas, will host a training class focused on WIOA, SNAP, and TANF programs and career pathways. Accepted class participants will learn and apply data analytic approaches to linked state SNAP, TANF, WIOA, and UI wage data to better understand workforce behavior and outcomes.

Evaluating Enrollment to Employment Pathways in Arkansas

Coleridge, in partnership with the state of Arkansas, will host a training class focused on WIOA, SNAP, and TANF programs and career pathways. Accepted class participants will learn and apply data analytic approaches to linked Arkansas SNAP, TANF, WIOA, and UI wage data to better understand workforce behavior and outcomes.

Examining Unemployment to Reemployment Trajectories of Unemployment Insurance Claimants in Wisconsin

Coleridge, in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, will host a training class focused on unemployment to reemployment transitions. Accepted class participants will learn and apply data analytic approaches to linked state PROMIS and UI wage data to better understand UI benefit claimant behavior and outcomes.

Investigating Employment Outcomes of Foster Care Youth in California

Examining Unemployment to Reemployment Trajectories of Unemployment Insurance Claimants in Arkansas

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