October 1, 2012 - 2:09pm
Response to Intervention - by Leah Goldstein Moses & Cecelia Dodge
October 1, 2012 - 2:02pm
In a Randomized Control Trial (RCT), people are selected to receive a service at random, and results for both selected and non-selected people are tracked over time. RCTs are sometimes called the “gold standard” of evaluation. However, ethical, pragmatic or resource issues often make RCT a poor choice for evaluation.
What do people like about RCTs?
September 25, 2012 - 3:57pm
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September 24, 2012 - 2:48pm
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July 12, 2012 - 5:58pm
Over the past several months, the Improve Group team spent some time reflecting on how cultural competence informs and is present in our work. There is extensive academic and practical work focusing on cultural competence, and we were able to explore several definitions (such as in this compilation).
Cultural competence is important to evaluation practice for several reasons:
July 9, 2012 - 8:36pm
As explained by the Balanced Scorecard Institute, the balanced scorecard was designed by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton ”as a performance measurement framework that added strategic, non-financial performance measures to traditional financial metrics to give managers and executives a more balanced view of organizational performance” (see Balanced Scorecard Basics).