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EVALUATION WORKSHOP MATERIALS

 

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Workshop on Randomized Experimental Evaluations:

by Howard Bloom and Janet Quint,
Of Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC)

workshop1:  
   Session 1: Basic Concepts

 Session 2: Evaluating a Tutoring Program for Elementary School Students: A Mini-case
workshop2:  
   Session 1:Sample Size and Allocation for Randomized Experiments

 Session 2 Interpreting An Evaluation Study: The MDRC Career Academies Report
workshop3:  
   Session 1 Accounting for "No-Shows in Randomized Experiments
   Session 2 Estimating Program Impacts on Student Performance Using "Short" Interrupted
     Time-Series

 Session 3: Theory of Change Evaluation

 
Workshop on Strategies for Evaluating Educational Interventions (When you Can't Use Random Assignment)
 By Burt Barnow and Marvin Mandell

 

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Evaluation Methods Resources

Overview   PDF (11k) Day 1: Introduction   PDF (32k)
  • Basic Concept
  • Evaluating a Tutoring Program for Elementary School Students: a mini case study
Day 2:    PDF (44k)
  • Sample Size and Allocation for Randomized Experiments
  • Interpreting an Evaluation Study: The MDRC Career Academies Report
Day 3:    PDF (39k)
  • Accounting for 'No-Shows' in Randomized Experiments
  • Estimating Program Impacts on Student Performance Using 'Short " Interrupted Time Series
  • * Theory of Change evaluation
Day 4:    PDF (80k)
  • A quasi-Experimental Strategy for measuring the impacts of whole school reforms
  • Deciding when to Evaluate: MDRC's Report on the Evaluability of the Toyota Family Literacy Program
  • Random Assignment of Schools to Measure Program Impacts on Student Performance
References   PDF (22k)

Materials for the PES Workshops On Assessing Program Impacts And Implementation

Conducted by

Howard S. Bloom
Janet Quint

 

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

 

 

For the Program and Evaluation Service
US Department of Education
December 6, 1999, February 3, 2000, April 26, 2000, and September 15, 2000

 

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