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Active Parental Consent in School-Based Research: How Much Is Enough and How …
Active parental consent policies have been blamed for low participation rates and selection bias (i.e., loss of "high-risk" youths) in school-based studies. In this article, the authors describe active consent procedures that produced an overall active consent rate of 79% in a sample of more than 4,500 middle school students attending 29 schools in seven cities across the United States. Consent…
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- Vol. 32, No. 4, August 2008. Page 335-362
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Weighting Regressions by Propensity Scores
Regressions can be weighted by propensity scores in order to reduce bias. However, weighting is likely to increase random error in the estimates, and to bias the estimated standard errors downward, even when selection mechanisms are well understood. Moreover, in some cases, weighting will increase the bias in estimated causal parameters. If investigators have a good causal model, it seems bette…
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- Vol. 32, No. 4, August 2008. Page 392-409
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Using Tax Parcels to Select a Location-Based Sample: An Illustration That Exa…
Social science research is increasingly considering place when examining social programs and policies with a spatial component. A specific research challenge involving spatial policies is how to select a sample of individuals based on their geographic locations. This article illustrates the use of geographic information systems, tax parcels, and mail surveys to target residents in varied geogra…
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- Vol. 32, No. 4, August 2008. Page 315-334
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What Respondents Really Expect From Researchers
This article addresses the issue of falling response rates in telephone surveys. To better understand and maintain respondent goodwill, concepts of psychological contract and respondent expectations are introduced and explored. Results of the qualitative study show that respondent expectations are not only socially contingent but also ego-expressive, utilitarian, pleasurable, and epistemic by n…
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- Vol. 32, No. 4, August 2008. Page 363-391
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Building Evaluation Capacity in Spain: A Case Study of Rural Development and …
The development of European Community administrative authority has greatly influenced the development of an evaluation culture among the southern and central member states of the European Union. The present case study from Spain provides an example of this diffusion through the use of an empowerment evaluation approach to build evaluation capacity within the context of rural development. The st…
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- Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2008. Page 478-506
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The Influence of Collaboration on Program Outcomes: The Colorado Nurse—Fami…
Though collaboration is often required in community initiatives, little evidence documents relationships between collaboration and program success. The authors contend that clarification of the construct collaboration is necessary for investigating its contribution to the success of community initiatives. After respecifying collaboration, they present a study of a multisite program that involve…
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- Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2008. Page 453-477
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Having One's Cake and Eating It, Too: Combining True Experiments With Regress…
Both true experiments and regression discontinuity (RD) designs produce unbiased estimates of effects. However, true experiments are, of course, often criticized on equity grounds, whereas RD designs entail sacrifices in terms of statistical precision. In this article, a hybrid of true experiments and RD designs is considered. This hybrid entails smaller sacrifices in statistical efficiency tha…
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- Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2008. Page 415-434
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The Use of Self-Generated Identification Codes in Longitudinal Research
Longitudinal research designs involve data collection at multiple time points to measure change over time. Therefore, identification of the same respondents is essential at each time point so that data from the same respondents can be matched for comparison over time. Subject-generated identification codes permit an anonymous means to track respondents over multiple data collection points. This…
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- Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2008. Page 435-452
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Assessing School Effectiveness
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) program measures value added in colleges and universities, by testing the ability of freshmen and seniors to think logically and write clearly. The program is popular enough that it has attracted critics. In this paper, we outline the methods used by the CLA to determine value added. We summarize the criticisms, which revolve around the question of which…
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- Vol. 32, No. 6, December 2008. Page 511-525
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Is Access Sufficient? An Examination of the Effects of the MedShare Program t…
We conduct an evaluation of MedShare, a program designed to enhance access to prescription drugs for indigent patients in the Greater Cincinnati area. The program expands access to drugs by providing subsidies to reduce the costs paid by patients for their prescriptions. The assumption is that by expanding access to prescription drugs, participant health outcomes as measured by quality of life …
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- Vol. 32, No. 6, December 2008. Page 526-546
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Economic Evaluation of Continuing Care Interventions in the Treatment of Subs…
The chronic and relapsing nature of substance abuse points to the need for continuing care after a primary phase of treatment. This article reviews the economic studies of continuing care, discusses research gaps, highlights some of the challenges of conducting rigorous economic evaluations of continuing care, and offers research guidelines and recommendations for future economic studies in thi…
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- Vol. 32, No. 6, December 2008. Page 547-568
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Measuring and Evaluating School Performance: An Investigation of Status and G…
Several school performance indices were evaluated using achievement data from multiple longitudinally matched middle school student cohorts in a large district in the southwestern United States. Measures designed to index the within-cohort achievement status and growth of students as well as the status and growth-based changes that occur over years between different student cohorts were studied…
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- Vol. 32, No. 6, December 2008. Page 569-595
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A Model of Substance Abuse Risk: Adapting to the Sri Lankan Context
This study translated and validated the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) among 13 to 18 year old Sri Lankan adolescents attending school. A standard systematic translation procedure was followed to translate the original SURPS into Sinhala language. A Delphi process was conducted to determine judgmental validity of Sinhala SURPS. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the tr…
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- Volume 33, Number. 1. February 2009 pp. 83-97
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The Effectiveness of an Electronic Security Management System in a Privately …
Poisson and negative binomial regression methods are used to analyze the monthly time series data to determine the effects of introducing an integrated security management system including closed-circuit television (CCTV), door alarm monitoring, proximity card access, and emergency call boxes to a large privately-owned complex of apartment buildings in New York City. Crime rates in a control ap…
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- Volume 33, Number 1, February 2009. pp.3-26
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Curriculum Evaluation and Revision in a Nascent Field: The Utility of the Res…
Although most academic disciplines evolve at a measured pace, the emerging field of homeland security must, for reasons of safety and security, evolve rapidly. The Department of Homeland Security sponsored the establishment of a graduate educational program for key officials holding homeland security roles. Because homeland security is a nascent field, the establishment of a program curriculum …
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- Volume 33, Number. 1, February 2009. pp 54-82
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Poverty and Gender Perspective in Productive Projects for Rural Women in Mexi…
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a pilot study that promoted productive and capacity-building activities among deprived rural women of Mexico. The evaluation design is observational; 1,278 women are interviewed, and the comparison group is estimated by propensity score matching. The results show a positive impact on the carrying out of agricultural activities, in the aut…
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- Volume 33, Number 1, February 2009. pp. 27-53
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Mapping Excellence in National Research Systems: The Case of Italy
The study of "scientific excellence" is taking on increasing importance in the development of research policies in many nations. However, scientific excellence is difficult to define because of its multidimensional and highly complex character. This work contributes to the state of the art by exploring an effective, simple, and inexpensive bibliometric methodology that further identifies "excel…
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- Volume 33, Number 2 April 2009, pp. 159-188
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Evidence for Substance Abuse Services and Policy Research, A Systematic Revie…
We reviewed 39 national government- and nongovernment-sponsored data sets related to substance addiction policy. These data sets describe patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), treatment providers and the services they offer, and/or expenditures on treatment. Findings indicate the availability of reliable data on the prevalence of SUD and the characteristics of specialty treatment facili…
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- Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009 103-137
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Projected Sustainability of Innovative Social Programs
This study is an exploratory examination of the projected sustainability of more than 100 projects funded by the Australian government. Using data collected by the body that evaluated the projects and data from a government database, it examines the predictors of various forms of sustainability. Findings show that some two thirds of the project leaders who expected their programs to continue af…
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- Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009. pp. 189-205
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Use of Web and In-Person Survey Modes to Gather Data From Young Adults on Sex…
In a randomized test of mixed-mode data collection strategies, 386 participants in the Raising Healthy Children (RHC) Project were either (a) asked to complete a survey via the Internet and later offered the opportunity to complete the survey in person or (b) first offered an in-person survey, with the Web follow-up. The Web-first condition resulted in cost savings although the overall completi…
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- Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009. pp. 138-158
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