Special Feature: Epistemological Paradigms in Evaluation: Implications for Practice. Section 2: "Paradigm Conflict" Case Study. Experimental and Pragmatic Approaches to the Incidence of Adolescent Suicide.

Kalafat, John; Neigher, William D.

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Special Feature: Epistemological Paradigms in Evaluation: Implications for Practice. Section 2: "Paradigm Conflict" Case Study. Experimental and Pragmatic Approaches to the Incidence of Adolescent Suicide.

Kalafat, John; Neigher, William D.

Evaluation and Program Planning, v14 n4 p377-83 1991

Both pragmatic and experimental approaches to studying adolescent suicide are applied in this study of a suicide prevention curriculum for eleventh graders. Pragmatic and experimental paradigms were both of value in addressing needs of these students and in making general knowledge available. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Epistemology, Evaluation Utilization, Grade 11, High School Students, High Schools, Incidence, Prevention, Research Design, Research Methodology, Social Science Research, Suicide

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