Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interests¹

The research team for this evaluation consists of a prime contractor, Westat, and a subcontractor, Abt Associates. Neither of these organizations or their key staff has financial interests that could be affected by findings from the Even Start Classroom Literacy Interventions and Outcomes Study.

No one on the Technical Work Group, convened to provide advice and guidance, has financial interests that could be affected by findings from the evaluation. One of the members of the study’s Technical Work Group, Dr. Christopher Lonigan of Florida State University, is the lead author on the Test of Preschool Early Literacy. The CLIO study used components of a prepublication version of this assessment called the Preschool Comprehensive Test of Phonological and Print Processing (Pre-CTOPPP).

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¹ Contractors carrying out research and evaluation projects for IES frequently need to obtain expert advice and technical assistance from individuals and entities whose other professional work may not be entirely independent of or separable from the particular tasks they are carrying out for the IES contractor.
Contractors endeavor not to put such individuals or entities in positions in which they could bias the analysis and reporting of results, and their potential conflicts of interest are disclosed.