Search Results - subject:"Random assignment"

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Profiles of the Random Assignment Projects.

Martinez, John; Manno, Michelle S.; Baird, Peter; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008

This report profiles six projects participating in the random assignment evaluation. The projects are up and running in …

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The Late Pretest Problem in Randomized Control Trials of Education Interventions.

Schochet, Peter Z. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008

after random assignment, so that including them in the analysis could bias the post-test impact estimates. Deciding whether …

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Random assignment in programme evaluation and intervention research: questions and answers

Dynarski, Mark; Grosso, Patricia - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 1, pp. 9-13

This brief article seeks to answer, with examples, some of the more common questions that policy‐makers and practitioners in children's services often ask about randomised controlled trials (RCTs). It is essentially a primer, and those wishing to read further on these issues might find it...

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The politics of random assignment: implementing studies and impacting policy

Gueron, Judith - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 1, pp. 14-26

reform and social service programmes and systems. It discusses the challenges in implementing a random assignment study and …

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Lessons for conducting random assignment in schools

Ritter, Gary; Holley, Marc - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 2, pp. 28-39

The use of random assignment can be effective and appropriate in the evaluation of programmes that serve children in … schools. Because random assignment creates pre‐treatment equality between treatment and control groups, this methodology is … provide little guidance to those interested in designing and implementing programme evaluations that use random assignment …

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Thinking Through Evaluation Design Options.

Devaney, Barbara; Rossi, Peter - Mathematica Policy Research - 1997

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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions

Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1997

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Randomized Experiments in Education: Assessing the Objections to Doing Them

Cook, Thomas D. - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2007) 5, pp. 331-355

This article analyzes a variety of reasons that are offered within the community of educational researchers to explain why so few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been undertaken. The article suggests strategies for dealing with most of these objections. However, some of these objections...

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The Research Design and Methodological Issues for the Cash and Counseling Evaluation.

Brown, Randall S.; Dale, Stacy B. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2007

research questions, data sources, random assignment, measurement, analytic methods, and design limitations. …

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When Elementary Schools Stay Open Late: Results from The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program.

James-Burdumy, Susanne; Dynarski, Mark; Deke, John - Mathematica Policy Research - 2005

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