Quasi-Experimental Approaches to Outcome Evaluation

2018 ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Linfield ◽  
Emil J. Posavac
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Approaches

The Sign 4 Big Feelings intervention to improve early years outcomes in preschool children: Outcome evaluation (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Davidson ◽  
Gurch Randhawa
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children’S Wellbeing ◽  
Preschool Age Children ◽  
Measuring Change ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Clinically Significant

BACKGROUND Any delays in language development may affect learning, profoundly influencing personal, social, and professional trajectories. The effectiveness of the Sign 4 Big Feelings (S4BF) intervention was investigated by measuring change in early years outcomes after a three month period. OBJECTIVE To determine whether Early Years Outcomes (EYOs) significantly improve (beyond typical expected development), if children’s wellbeing improves after the S4BF intervention period, and if there are differences between boys and girls in any progress made. METHODS An evaluation of S4BF was conducted with 111 preschool age children in early years settings in Luton, United Kingdom. Listening, speaking, understanding, and managing feelings and behaviour, in addition to Leuven well-being scales were used in a quasi-experimental study design to measure outcomes pre- and postintervention. RESULTS Statistically and clinically significant differences were found for each of the seven pre- and post measures taken: words understood and spoken, well-being scores, and the four EYO domains. Gender differences were negligible in all analyses undertaken. CONCLUSIONS Children of all abilities may benefit considerably from S4BF, but a language-based intervention of this nature may be transformational for children who are behind developmentally, with EAL needs or of lower socio-economic status. CLINICALTRIAL ISRCTN42025531; https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN42025531

Gender-Responsive Intervention for Female Juvenile Offenders: A Quasi-Experimental Outcome Evaluation

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie R. Anderson ◽  
Brinn M. Walerych ◽  
Nordia A. Campbell ◽  
Ashlee R. Barnes ◽  
William S. Davidson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Home Treatment ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Female Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Quasi Experimental

The increasing proportion of girls in the juvenile justice system has prompted courts to develop gender-responsive services. The present study examined data from a mid-sized county juvenile court to examine the effects of a group home intervention for girls. The study compared group home participants ( n = 172) with girls who did not receive group home treatment ( n = 814) using propensity score matching (PSM). Girls who received group home treatment were significantly less likely to re-offend in the 2-year follow-up period. Policy and practice implications for gender-responsive services as well as future directions for research are discussed.

scholarly journals Dual-Focus Mutual Aid for Co-Occurring Disorders: A Quasi-Experimental Outcome Evaluation Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Magura ◽  
Andrew Rosenblum ◽  
Cherie L. Villano ◽  
Howard S. Vogel ◽  
Chunki Fong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Some Subjective Reactions of a Behavioral Scientist Involved in Thanatological Research

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Devins
Keyword(s):  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Natural Death ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Personal Awareness ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Personal Utility ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Research Questions

Ethical and pragmatic considerations often preclude the application of classical experimental approaches to in vivo thanatological research. While quasi-experimental and correlational designs may be employed to circumvent a number of potential problems, many more empirically testable research questions simply remain unaskable in the applied setting. Clearly, extra-experimental sources of information are of particular value in such situations. The present paper reports some of the observations and subjective reactions experienced by the writer while engaged in a series of experimental thanatological research studies. The issues addressed include the motivations of thanatological investigators and research participants, personal awareness of death, displacement of grief, anxieties about personal utility, paternalism, and honesty (i.e., frankness) as a primary ethic in facilitating a peaceful, “natural,” death in the moribund individual.

scholarly journals An Outcome Evaluation of Competency Based Training for Child Welfare

10.18060/45 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elizabeth Vonk ◽  
W. Sean Newsome ◽  
Denise E. Bronson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Msw Students ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The Difference ◽  
One Year

In response to the continuing need for competent child welfare professionals, a large mid-western university’s College of Social Work collaborated with a public child welfare agency to design and implement a one year,Title IV-E-funded training opportunity for second-year MSW students. Student outcomes, including knowledge acquisition, attitudes about child welfare, and field of post-graduation employment, were evaluated using a quasi-experimental pre-post comparison group design (n=28).Results indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups concerning attitudes about child welfare practice. However, although trainees’ level of child welfare knowledge increased more than that of the comparison group, the difference did not reach statistical significance. Implications for practice and social work education are discussed.

scholarly journals How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhaven Sampat ◽  
Heidi L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Gene Patents ◽  
Human Genes ◽  
The Us ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Patent Applications ◽  
Average Gene

We investigate whether patents on human genes have affected follow-on scientific research and product development. Using administrative data on successful and unsuccessful patent applications submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, we link the exact gene sequences claimed in each application with data measuring follow-on scientific research and commercial investments. Using these data, we document novel evidence of selection into patenting: patented genes appear more valuable—prior to being patented— than non-patented genes. This evidence of selection motivates two quasi-experimental approaches, both of which suggest that on average gene patents have had no quantitatively important effect on follow-on innovation. (JEL I10, O31, O34)

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