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Direct linkSchochet, Peter; Burghardt, John – Evaluation Review, 2007
This article discusses the use of propensity scoring in experimental program evaluations to estimate impacts for subgroups defined by program features and participants' program experiences. The authors discuss estimation issues and provide specification tests. They also discuss the use of an overlooked data collection design--obtaining predictions…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Scoring, Experimental Programs, Control Groups
Peer reviewedGresham, Frank M.; Macmillan, Donald L. – Behavioral Disorders, 1997
Critiques research findings on the effectiveness of the Early Intervention Project (EIP) for children with autism. The review finds sufficient threats to the experimental validity of the EIP to prevent unqualified endorsement of it as a validated treatment for children with autism. The review found in particular there were threats to external…
Descriptors: Autism, Early Intervention, Experimental Programs, Outcomes of Treatment
Download full textKatz, Lilian G. – 1969
To compare the effectiveness of the traditional and the experimental approaches to Head Start classrooms, 68 children and six teachers in San Francisco participated in an educational experiment. The traditional approach emphasizes the children's internal motivation resulting from spontaneous free play and warm, accepting teachers, while the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Experimental Programs, Learning Theories, Preschool Education
Jenson, Jeffrey M.; Dieterich, William A.; Rinner, Jenifer R.; Washington, Felicia; Burgoyne, Kathleen E. – Children & Schools, 2006
Group-randomized trials (GRTs)--studies that evaluate the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions occurring at the group level--are increasingly used to assess the effects of school-based prevention programs on behavioral outcomes of children and adolescents. These designs pose many implementation and design challenges for school…
Descriptors: Prevention, Research Problems, Program Design, Program Effectiveness
Brown, Robert D. – 1971
Several problems that an evaluator of an experimental college has to face and resolve are considered. These include: (1) the purpose of the evaluation and the role of the evaluator, (2) the utility of a research design model, (3) the specificity of program goals before the evaluation is planned, and (4) the appropriateness of standardized or local…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Colleges
Battle (Mark) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It is a report of an assessment study designed to determine the status and results of the implementation of mixed income experiments at 47 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
