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Kelcey, Ben; Shen, Zuchao – Health Education Research, 2017
A key consideration in planning studies of community-based HIV education programs is identifying a sample size large enough to ensure a reasonable probability of detecting program effects if they exist. Sufficient sample sizes for community- or group-based designs are proportional to the correlation or similarity of individuals within communities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Community Programs, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Yin, Robert K., Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
Outcomes evaluation of community partnerships to prevent substance abuse poses many methodological challenges. The nine articles of this special section illustrate the variety of approaches evaluators have taken to studies that are often complicated because of small sample size. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Evaluation Methods, Prevention, Program Evaluation
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Visher, Mary G.; Wathington, Heather; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Schneider, Emily – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2008
Learning communities are a popular strategy that community colleges nationwide have embraced in support of developmental students. In a learning community, a cohort of students takes two or more courses linked by integrated themes and assignments that are developed through ongoing faculty collaboration. While the number of learning community…
Descriptors: Research Design, Community Colleges, Community Programs, College Programs
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Pade, Hadas; Taube, Daniel O.; Aalborg, Annette E.; Reiser, Paul J. – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2006
The immediate and long-term effects of a Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) derived program offered at a Kaiser Permanente facility were evaluated. There were 73 participants in the initial sample and 23 in the 5-6 year follow-up sample. Child behaviors improved significantly immediately following treatment and some improvements were…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Behavior Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Modification