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Where Community-Engaged Research and Randomized Controlled Trials Align: Lessons from Implementation of an Experimental Evaluation in Partnership with a Community-Based Afterschool Program
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Jessica Sperling; Megan Gray; Victoria Lee; Lorrie Schmid; Nicholas Malinowski – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
There has been increased focus within the evaluation field on the value of community-engaged research (CER) methods; however, CER is not easily seen as compatible with experimental evaluation methods (or randomized controlled trial, RCT). For instance, in an experimental design, researchers leverage randomization to create a counterfactual; this…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Research Methodology, Randomized Controlled Trials, After School Programs