Random Control Trial (RCTs) evaluation designs in which potential participants are randomly selected to receive a program or become part of a control group that does not receive the program are an effective method of determining program impact, when used appropriately. A well designed RCT...
Bernstein AEA Some Not So Random Thoughts About Random Control Trials 10-13-13.pptx
PPT for Watkins, Covington-Clarkson, Arens & Borman's presentation in the session 397: "Program Evaluation in Urban School Contexts: Five Cases" Thursday, Nov 12, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Suwannee 14 #Evaluation2009 #Prek-12EducationalEvaluation #Collaborative,ParticipatoryandEmpowermentEval...
Bal Eval Watkins et al AEA 09.pdf
Thereโs much ambiguity about what constitutes evaluation and research. A major reason why is that they share common tools, approaches, and designsโbut, purposes differ. This "Navigational Map" has four major quadrants to differentiate: 1) research, 2) evaluation research, 3) assessment (within...
JHSingh_2.9.2012_Navigational Map.pdf
This is the latest bibliography that I have on RPT. Please if you update share it with the rest of us! #Instruments #QuantitativeMethods-TheoryandDesign #IndependentConsulting #RPT
RPTBiblio Rev 1-16-08.doc
This was a brief introduction to my recent work as a prelude to the open discussion that constituted the majority of the session. #Evaluation2009 #2009Conference
Recent Work.ppt
Powerpoint slides describe results of GAO analysis of types of interventions for which randomized experiments are or are not well-suited for assessing effectiveness and types of alternative methods for estimating program impact. Document provides electronic reference to published GAO report with...
AEA2010-Shipman Rigorous Methods.pdf
Presentation at AEA 2011 session #822 highlighting what's new in the 2nd edition of the RealWorld Evaluation book #2011Conference #InternationalandCross-CulturalEval #TheoriesofEvaluation #RealWorldEvaluationbook
822 What's new in RealWorld Evaluation 2nd edition.pptx
Paper prepared for a Panel Presentation at the 2005 AEA Conference, Toronto, Canada; Oct 29, 2005. Session Title: More on Retrospective Pretest: Developing a Taxonomy of Best Practice Uses. This review was undertaken to examine the published literature relative to the retrospective pretest...
RPT-AEA'06_TaylorPowellKlatt.pdf
Ethics sessions at Evaluation 2011 compiled by the Ethics Section of the Values Team. #Ethics #2011Conference
aea11.ethics.sessions1.docx
Evaluating post-intervention effects by comparing alternative structural equation modeling: decision-trees (DT) based on formal model comparisons This paper focuses on common group invariance assumptions behind tests of post-intervention differences in outcomes. A decision-tree (DT)...
DT-SEM_YARP_AEA_2010.ppt