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Direct linkWang, Mei; Sun, Guangwen; Chang, Yaping; Jin, Yanling; Leenus, Alvin; Maaz, Muhammad; Li, Guowei; Bhatt, Meha; Abbade, Luciana P. F.; Nwosu, Ikunna; Zielinski, Laura; Sanger, Nitika; Bantoto, Bianca; Luo, Candice; Shams, Ieta; Shahid, Hamnah; Adachi, Jonathan; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Levine, Mitchell; Samaan, Zainab; Thabane, Lehana – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Behavioral and social sciences randomized controlled trials (BSSTs) have a significant role in life sciences. Choosing an appropriate control or comparator group for BSSTs is critical, to provide true intervention effects. The objective of this study was to determine the types of control groups used in BSSTs, and the rationale provided to justify…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Databases, Behavioral Science Research, Social Science Research
Washburn, Micki; Rubin, Allen; Zhou, Shu – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized clinical trials supporting the efficacy of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adults aged 18-65 years. Method: Within-group effect sizes were calculated via the Glass approach and adjusted for sample…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Adults, Behavior Modification, Benchmarking
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As the first major effort to use a behavioral economics lens to examine human services programs that serve poor and vulnerable families in the United States, the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project demonstrated the value of applying behavioral insights to improve the efficacy of human services programs. The BIAS…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, Human Services, Children
Kourea, Lefki; Lo, Ya-yu – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2016
Improving academic, behavioural, and social outcomes of students through empirical research has been a firm commitment among researchers, policy-makers, and other professionals in education across Europe and the United States (U.S.). To assist in building scientific evidences, executive bodies such as the European Commission and the Institute for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Validity, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Methodology
Tipton, Elizabeth; Yeager, David; Iachan, Ronaldo – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Questions regarding the generalizability of results from educational experiments have been at the forefront of methods development over the past five years. This work has focused on methods for estimating the effect of an intervention in a well-defined inference population (e.g., Tipton, 2013; O'Muircheartaigh and Hedges, 2014); methods for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Science Research, Intervention, Educational Experiments
