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Moss, Brian G.; Yeaton, William H. – Evaluation Review, 2013
Background: Annually, American colleges and universities provide developmental education (DE) to millions of underprepared students; however, evaluation estimates of DE benefits have been mixed. Objectives: Using a prototypic exemplar of DE, our primary objective was to investigate the utility of a replicative evaluative framework for assessing…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Program Evaluation
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Villanti, Andrea C.; Cullen, Jennifer; Vallone, Donna M.; Stuart, Elizabeth A. – Evaluation Review, 2011
Sustained mass media campaigns have been recommended to stem the tobacco epidemic in the United States. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to estimate the effect of awareness of a national smoking cessation media campaign (EX[R]) on quit attempts and cessation-related cognition. Participants were 4,067 smokers and recent quitters aged 18-49…
Descriptors: Smoking, Mass Media, Prevention, Health Promotion
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Foster, E. Michael; Fang, Grace Y. – Evaluation Review, 2004
Using data from the evaluation of the Fast Track intervention, this article illustrates three methods for handling attrition. Multiple imputation and ignorable maximum likelihood estimation produce estimates that are similar to those based on listwise-deleted data. A panel selection model that allows for selective dropout reveals that highly…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Research Methodology, Data Collection, Gender Differences