I am dying to know! It would be such a great example to use for advanced research courses...
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In a slightly different (but I think related) vein, I once heard an education researcher talking about a study that involved some intervention to improve student performance in a particular course. Somewhat surprisingly, the results showed no improvement in the target course. However, there was a substantial improvement in another course. It was a situation where each course was populated by the same students. So the researchers speculated that students were able to maintain their grades in the target course with less time and effort, and that they gave that extra time and effort to the other course, where it was apparently more important to them to improve their performance. But if the researchers had not been paying attention to what was going on in the other non-target course(s), they might easily have concluded that the intervention was not effective.
I can't remember who the researcher was. But if anyone is dying to know, I can probably track it down.
Cheers,
Bruce
Mike Palij wrote
> Just one more addition to this thread, a cautionary tale.
> Susan Reverby (a researcher best known for her work on the Tuskegee
> syphilis nontreatment study; see:
>
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=qm5X5gW7qNIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&> dq=%22susan+reverby%22+tuskegee&ots=b5Q3bpmUif&sig=GasL1Eq2uegPmHuaZD9
> uCyNX1pM#v=onepage&q=%22susan%20reverby%22%20tuskegee&f=false
> )
> who is on another mailing list that I'm a member of, provided a link
> to an analysis by HIV researcher Ida Susser of a program intervention
> study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The
> program was to promote preventive measures to stop the spread of the
> HIV but, as implemented, appears to have failed to do so. Susser
> identifies some possible factors for why the intervention failed which
> highlights some of the problems the exist between the people
> implementing a program and the recipients of the program. Susser had
> her analysis published on the Aljazeera America website (just a news
> website, not a jihadi outlet) and it shows that when doing program
> evaluation one cannot simply do statistical analysis but one also
> should do an analysis of how the program was implemented.
> NOTE: even if the program was implemented as planned, the plan that
> was used may not have been the best approach to use, consequently, it
> should not come as a surprise that there were negative results,
> however, it failed because the wrong implementation was used not that
> the implementation does not work.
> Susser's article can be read here:
>
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/blame-research-design-for> -failed-hiv-study.html#
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> mp26@
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> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:19 AM
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>
> Ryan,
>
>
>
> The Evaluators’ Institute at George Washington University has a full
> cadre of courses for evaluators. Here’s the current listing:
>
>
>
> Analytic Approaches
>
> a.. Applied Regression Analysis for Evaluators
> b.. Applied Statistics for Evaluators
> c.. Hierarchical Linear Modeling
> d.. Intermediate Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
> e.. Intermediate Qualitative Analysis
> f.. Introduction to Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
> g.. Needs Assessment
> h.. Practical Meta-Analysis: Summarizing Results Across Studies
> i.. Qualitative Data Analysis
> The link to the Evaluators’ Institute is:
>
http://tei.gwu.edu/course-listing-category>
>
>
> I’d also recommend the session by Stephanie Evergreen, Presenting
> Data
> Effectively: Practical Methods for Improving Evaluation Communication .
> She’s done amazing work with data visualization. We’ve had her at my
> organization for a full day, and her stuff is really good.
>
>
>
> Hope this all helps.
>
>
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> Brian Dates, M.A.
> Director of Evaluation and Research | Evaluation & Research |
> Southwest Counseling Solutions
> Southwest Solutions
> 1700 Waterman, Detroit, MI 48209
> 313-841-8900 (x7442) office | 313-849-2702 fax
>
> bdates@
> | www.swsol.org
>
>
>
> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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>
> OT:
>
>
>
> Is anyone familiar a grad level stats course that is geared towards
> program evaluation?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Ryan
>
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