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Commentary: Contextualizing Alternatives to RCTs: Measuring the Impact of a Non-Governmental Sponsorship Organization's Projects to Strengthen Children's Supportive Environments
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Strouse, Darcy L.; Moore, Kathryn – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
ChildFund International (ChildFund) is a child-focused International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) which, since 1938, has worked with local implementing partners (LIPs), government, and other partner organizations to help create the safe environments children need to thrive. The purpose of this commentary is to reflect on the utility and…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Effectiveness, Nongovernmental Organizations, Children
Commentary: Addressing the Replication and Translation Crises Taking One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? A Plea for Slow Experimental Research Instead of Fast "Participatory" Studies
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IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
Randomized controlled trials are a special case of designs using an unbiased instrument to take care of confounders even if they are unmeasured or unknown. Another example of studies using instrumental variables is the Mendelian experiment and Directed Acyclic Graphs show the power of such designs to enhance the internal validity. It is argued…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Randomized Controlled Trials, Researchers, Participatory Research
The Set of Assumptions Randomized Control Trials Make and Their Implications for the Role of Such Experiments in Evidence-Based Child and Adolescent Development Research
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Wadhwa, Mansi; Cook, Thomas D. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
This chapter highlights the key assumptions underlying Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) and illustrates them with regard to the practice of RCTs in the realm of child and adolescent development. Given the prominence of RCTs in policy research, we analyze the possible ways in which these assumptions might not be met by single randomized…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Evidence Based Practice, Child Development, Adolescent Development
Problematic Cost-Utility Analysis of Interventions for Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Cost-utility analyses are slowly becoming part of randomized control trials evaluating physical and mental health treatments and (preventive) interventions in child and adolescent development. The British National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, for example, insists on the use of gains in Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) to compute the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Children
Implementation Evaluation of the Mother-Child Education Program among Refugee and Other Vulnerable Communities in Lebanon
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Ponguta, Liliana Angelica; Issa, Ghassan; Aoudeh, Lara; Maalouf, Cosette; Nourallah, Sawsan; Khoshnood, Kaveh; Zonderman, Anna Leslie; Katsovich, Liliya; Moore, Christina; Salah, Rima; Al-Soleiti, Majd; Britto, Pia Rebello; Leckman, James Frederick – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
Despite the knowledge that quality early childhood development programs, including those that target parental knowledge and behaviors, are essential for ameliorating the negative effects of early-life adversity, robust analyses of their implementation and impact in highly vulnerable settings are scarce. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Parent Child Relationship