Search Results - subject:"cluster-randomised trial"

How do shocks to non-cognitive skills affect test scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...

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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Keywords: test scores, non-cognitive skills, cluster randomised trial, wild cluster bootstrap, randomisation inference …. Treatmentwasrandomlyassignedatthetutoriallevel(cluster randomised trial). Assignment was blocked with regard to the 7 tutors. In Monte Carlo simulations, we assess … randomised to receive the treatment, while the other half served as the control group. A cluster randomised trial can have the …

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Provider-initiated HIV/AIDS counselling and testing at healthcare facilities in Thailand: a cluster-randomisation trial

Teerawattananon, Yot; Leelukkanaveera, Yuwadee; … - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 1 (2009) 4, pp. 450-469

The World Health Organization and UNAIDS advocate that healthcare providers worldwide consider provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing for clients attending healthcare facilities. However, there is a lack of evidence needed to support policy decisions, concerning the effectiveness of such...

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Optimal stepped wedge designs

Lawrie, Jock; Carlin, John B.; Forbes, Andrew B. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 99 (2015) C, pp. 210-214

Stepped wedge randomised trials are increasingly popular. Here we derive the optimal design for a fixed number of periods; this does not allocate an equal number of cluster units to each treatment sequence as might otherwise have been expected.

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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to noncognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025523