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Rigorous Program Evaluations on a Budget: How Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trials Are Possible in Many Areas of Social Policy
Rigorous Program Evaluations on a Budget: How Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trials Are Possible in Many Areas of Social Policy
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 05, 2012
ANNOTATION: “The increasing ability of social policy researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) at low cost could revolutionize the field of performance-based government. RCTs are widely judged to be the most credible method of evaluating whether a social program is effective, overcoming the demonstrated inability of other, more common methods to produce definitive evidence … Purpose of this document: To illustrate the feasibility and value of low-cost RCTs for policy officials and researchers, by providing concrete examples from diverse program areas. This paper summarizes five well-conducted, low-cost RCTs, carried out in real-world community settings” (p. 3). Sections comprising this publication include: purpose and background; and criminal justice examples--Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation and Enforcement (HOPE) Program, Recovery Coaches for Substance-Abusing Parents (Illinois), The Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) System (South Carolina) community-wide intervention program, New York City Teacher Incentive Program (K-12), and the Philadelphia Low-Intensity Community Supervision Experiment.
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