As the education and workforce development community looks more and more to CTE to help ensure students are both college and career ready, understanding and using CTE data and research becomes increasingly important. This is the first in a series of six practitioner training modules developed as part of the Career & Technical Education (CTE) Research Network Lead. Designed for CTE practitioners and state agency staff, these modules are designed to strengthen the capacity to access, understand, and use CTE data and research as well as conduct one's own research, particularly causal research. This module helps to understand whether a CTE program is successful and for which groups of students, and how to integrate components from other successful programs to implement improvements. It is designed to provide an introduction for practitioners who are new to CTE data and research or just need a refresher.