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Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
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Programs, Policies and Evaluation Tailoring Evaluations Identifying Issues and Formulating Questions Assessing the Need for a Program Expressing and Assessing Program Theory Monitoring Program Process and Performance Strategies for Impact Assessment Randomized Designs for Impact assessment Quasi-Experimental Impact Assessments Assessment of Full-Coverage Programs Measuring Efficiency.Abstract:
Programs, Policies and Evaluation Tailoring Evaluations Identifying Issues and Formulating Questions Assessing the Need for a Program Expressing and Assessing Program Theory Monitoring Program Process and Performance Strategies for Impact Assessment Randomized Designs for Impact Assessment Quasi-Experimental Impact Assessments Assessment of Full-Coverage Programs Measuring Efficiency The Social Context of Evaluationread more
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Evaluations of road accident blackspot treatment: A case of the iron law of evaluation studies?
TL;DR: The more confounding factors evaluation studies account for, the smaller becomes the accident reduction attributed to blackspot treatment, according to the so called Iron Law of evaluation studies.
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Dynamic Interactions and Intersubjectivity: Challenges to Causal Modeling in Studies of College Student Debt
TL;DR: The authors examines challenges to causal modeling regarding the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going behaviors, showing that statistical estimates of causal effects are confounded by dynamic interactions between the decision to borrow and the characteristics of borrowers (endogeneity), their degree and earnings expectations (self-selection bias), and cumulative debt (temporal and threshold effects).
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Developing Peer Mentoring through Evaluation
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