Place randomized trials : experimental tests of public policy / special editor of this volume, Robert Boruch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boruch, Robert F.

Series:

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 599.

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 599

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evaluation.

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2005.

Contents:

Better evaluation for evidence-based policy : place randomized trials in education, criminology, welfare, and health / Robert Boruch

Using place-based random assignment and comparative interrupted time-series analysis to evaluate the jobs-plus employment program for public housing residents / Howard S. Bloom and James A. Riccio

HIV prevention among women in low-income housing developments : issues and intervention outcomes in a place-based randomized controlled trial / Kathleen J. Sikkema

Cluster randomized trials of professional and oranizational behavior change interventions in health care settings / Jeremy Grimshaw, Martin Eccles, Marion Campbell, and Diana Elbourne

Cluster randomized trials for the evaluation of strategies designed to promote evidence-based practice in perinatal and neonatal medicine / Laura C. Leviton and Jeffrey D. Horbar

Historical review of school-based randomized trials for evaluating problem behavior prevention programs / Brian R. Flay and Linda M. Collins

Place-based randomized trials to test the effects on instructional practices of a mathematics/science professional development program for teachers / Andrew C. Porter, Rolf K. Blank, John L. Smithson, and Eric Osthoff

Emergent principles for the design, implementation, and analysis of cluster-based experiments in social science / Thomas D. Cook

Randomization and social program evaluation : the case of progresa / Susan W. Parker and Graciela M. Teruel

Hot spots policing experiments and criminal justice research : lessons from the field / David Weisburd

Introducing new contraceptives in rural China : a field experiment / Herbert L. Smith

Place randomized trials : experimental tests of public policy.

Notes:

"May 2005"

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1412925827

OCLC:

59158734