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Memorial Week: Laura Leviton on Remembering Will Shadish (1949-2016) Evaluation Theory Pioneer

This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Laura Leviton, Senior Adviser for Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former AEA president, as was Will Shadish. Will was a national treasure for evaluation, research methods, and mental …

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SWB Week: David Fitch on Efficiency in the Evaluation of Experimental Village Health Programs

Greetings, I am David J. Fitch, IDIES, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala and a member of SWB. Learning Lessons: UNICEF estimates Cuban and US infant mortality (IM) rates are 6 and 8 per 1,000 live births, showing a better record for a very poor country than a very rich country. Other poor countries and countries giving …

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Jeremy Jewell on Using Wait List Control Groups in Evaluation

Hi, my name is Dr. Jeremy Jewell, and I am an Associate Professor in the Clinical Child and School Psychology Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. For several years, I have helped our local probation department evaluate various risk assessment measures as well as programs for probationees. When evaluating the effectiveness of a program, one …

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