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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38509671/introducing-a-competency-framework-for-educational-researchers-the-case-of-vietnam
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EDITORIAL
Thuan Van Pham, Loc My Thi Nguyen, Trung Tran, Hoang Yen Thi Duong, Hoan Huu Tran, Thanh Thi Nghiem
In this paper, based on the established Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF), we introduce a new framework, tailor-made specifically for Vietnamese educational researchers, namely, Vietnam's Framework for Educational Researchers (VFER). VFER is expected to serve as a tool for Vietnamese educational researchers to self-evaluate their skills and support them in developing their career qualities from junior to senior career ladders. The framework includes four domains with ten subdomains and 28 indicators...
March 20, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38504596/estimating-a-theoretically-consistent-human-capital-production-function-with-an-application-to-head-start
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luis Faundez, Robert Kaestner
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is often inconsistent with human capital theory. We outline the problem and demonstrate its empirical importance with an analysis of the effect of Head Start and preschool on child and adult outcomes. The empirical specification we develop has broad implications for a variety of applied microeconomic analyses beyond our specific application...
March 20, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38400735/studying-parole-revocation-practices-accounting-for-dependency-between-competing-events
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
William Rhodes, Gerald Gaes, William Sabol
When individuals are released from prison, they typically enter a period of post confinement community supervision. While under community supervision, their behaviors are subject to special conditions requiring them to report to supervisors and prohibiting certain behaviors such as drug and alcohol use. Many supervisees are returned to prison because they violate those special conditions, or because they commit minor crimes that would not result in prison were they not being supervised. But others are returned to prison for serious new crimes...
February 24, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38379307/the-alternative-factors-leading-to-replication-crisis-prediction-and-evaluation
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EDITORIAL
Gregory Chernov
Most existing solutions to the current replication crisis in science address only the factors stemming from specific poor research practices. We introduce a novel mechanism that leverages the experts' predictive abilities to analyze the root causes of replication failures. It is backed by the principle that the most accurate predictor is the most qualified expert. This mechanism can be seamlessly integrated into the existing replication prediction market framework with minimal implementation costs. It relies on an objective rather than subjective process and unstructured expert opinions to effectively identify various influences contributing to the replication crisis...
February 20, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38379296/evaluating-sustainable-mobility-motorized-and-non-motorized-modes-in-suburban-areas-of-thailand
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pawinee Iamtrakul, Jirawan Klaylee, I-Soon Raungratanaamporn
The impact of sustainable mobility may be considered through the mode of non-motorization, which may vary by spatial environmental conditions, especially accessibility by active mobility in a necessarily safe, comfortable, and pleasant atmosphere. Sustainable mobility comprises willingness to allow commuting behaviors on non-motorized travel for safety and green ethics. These chiefly participate to create livable places, improve health and well-being, and promote quality of life and economic growth. By contrast, an impoverished street environment decreases the possibility of active mobility and relies on motorization...
February 20, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38308503/improving-the-usefulness-and-use-of-meta-analysis-to-inform-policy-and-practice
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca Maynard
This chapter begins with an overview of recent developments that have encouraged and facilitated greater use of research syntheses, including Meta-Analysis, to guide public policy and practice in education, workforce development, and social services. It discusses the role of Meta-Analysis for improving knowledge of the effectiveness of programs, policies, and practices and the applicability and generalizability of that knowledge to conditions other than those represented by the study samples and settings. The chapter concludes with recommendations for improving the potential of Meta-Analysis to accelerate knowledge development through changing how we design, conduct, and report findings of individual studies to maximize their usefulness in Meta-Analysis as well as how we produce and report Meta-Analysis findings...
February 3, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38299483/how-mixed-methods-research-can-improve-the-policy-relevance-of-impact-evaluations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Burt S Barnow, Sanjay K Pandey, Qian Eric Luo
This paper describes how mixed methods can improve the value and policy relevance of impact evaluations, paying particular attention to how mixed methods can be used to address external validity and generalization issues. We briefly review the literature on the rationales for using mixed methods; provide documentation of the extent to which mixed methods have been used in impact evaluations in recent years; describe how we developed a list of recent impact evaluations using mixed methods and the process used to conduct full-text reviews of these articles; summarize the findings from our analysis of the articles; discuss three exemplars of using mixed methods in impact evaluations; and discuss how mixed methods have been used for studying and improving external validity and potential improvements that could be made in this area...
February 1, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38297893/contexts-of-convenience-generalizing-from-published-evaluations-of-school-finance-policies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Danielle V Handel, Eric A Hanushek
Recent attention to the causal identification of spending impacts provides improved estimates of spending outcomes in a variety of circumstances, but the estimates are substantially different across studies. Half of the variation in estimated funding impact on test scores and over three-quarters of the variation of impacts on school attainment reflect differences in the true parameters across study contexts. Unfortunately, inability to describe the circumstances underlying effective school spending impedes any attempts to generalize from the extant results to new policy situations...
January 31, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38261473/the-logic-of-generalization-from-systematic-reviews-and-meta-analyses-of-impact-evaluations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julia H Littell
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are viewed as potent tools for generalized causal inference. These reviews are routinely used to inform decision makers about expected effects of interventions. However, the logic of generalization from research reviews to diverse policy and practice contexts is not well developed. Building on sampling theory, concerns about epistemic uncertainty, and principles of generalized causal inference, this article presents a pragmatic approach to generalizability assessment for use with systematic reviews and meta-analyses...
January 23, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38259054/multistage-supply-chain-channel-principal-agent-model-in-the-context-of-e-commerce-with-fairness-preference
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xin Liu, Zhen Xu, Qingxia Zhang, Liang Zhou
This research aims to investigate information asymmetry in e-commerce supply chain channels and the impact of the fair preference model on the behavior and returns of channel members. Therefore, by contrasting it with the model in the completely rational case, this research establishes a more realistic principal-agent model and incorporates the fair preference model into the e-commerce supply chain channel. According to the model's analysis, the effort level of the retailer at each stage is positively correlated with the e-commerce efficiency coefficient, and the incentive coefficient of manufacturers is positively correlated with the e-commerce efficiency coefficient in the case where all rationality is assumed...
January 23, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38235700/transferability-of-lessons-from-program-evaluations-iron-laws-hiding-hands-and-the-evidence-ecosystem
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tom Ling
Assessing the transferability of lessons from social research or evaluation continues to raise challenges. Efforts to identify transferable lessons can be based on two different forms of argumentation. The first draws upon statistics and causal inferences. The second involves constructing a reasoned case based on weighing up different data collected along the causal chain from designing to delivery. Both approaches benefit from designing research based upon existing evidence and ensuring that the descriptions of the programme, context, and intended beneficiaries are sufficiently rich...
January 18, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38234059/cluster-randomized-trials-designed-to-support-generalizable-inferences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah E Robertson, Jon A Steingrimsson, Issa J Dahabreh
When planning a cluster randomized trial, evaluators often have access to an enumerated cohort representing the target population of clusters. Practicalities of conducting the trial, such as the need to oversample clusters with certain characteristics in order to improve trial economy or support inferences about subgroups of clusters, may preclude simple random sampling from the cohort into the trial, and thus interfere with the goal of producing generalizable inferences about the target population. We describe a nested trial design where the randomized clusters are embedded within a cohort of trial-eligible clusters from the target population and where clusters are selected for inclusion in the trial with known sampling probabilities that may depend on cluster characteristics (e...
January 17, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38166476/empirical-analysis-of-energy-consumption-and-economic-growth-in-post-soviet-eurasia-do-they-matter-for-foreign-policy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Metin Aksoy, Fatih Mangir, Vakur Sümer
This study aims to evaluate the relationship between renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth in post-Soviet Eurasian countries by employing panel data from 15 countries from 1996 to 2018. The results reveal that the contribution of renewable energy consumption (REC) to economic growth is greater than non-renewable energy consumption. The overall findings imply that the transformation of energy consumption from non-renewable to renewable offers environmental advantages and growth opportunities...
January 3, 2024: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38146227/calibrating-items-using-an-unfolding-model-of-item-response-theory-the-case-of-the-trait-personality-questionnaire-5-tpque5
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eirini M Mitropoulou, Leonidas A Zampetakis, Ioannis Tsaousis
Unfolding item response theory (IRT) models are important alternatives to dominance IRT models in describing the response processes on self-report tests. Their usage is common in personality measures, since they indicate potential differentiations in test score interpretation. This paper aims to gain a better insight into the structure of trait personality, by investigating whether the dominance or alternatively the unfolding IRT model are better descriptors of the response processes on a personality measure constructed under the dominance response theorem...
December 25, 2023: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38096403/when-who-matters-interviewer-effects-and-survey-modality
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca Walcott, Isabelle Cohen, Denise Ferris
When and how to survey potential respondents is often determined by budgetary and external constraints, but choice of survey modality may have enormous implications for data quality. Different survey modalities may be differentially susceptible to measurement error attributable to interviewer assignment, known as interviewer effects. In this paper, we leverage highly similar surveys, one conducted face-to-face (FTF) and the other via phone, to examine variation in interviewer effects across survey modality and question type...
December 14, 2023: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38062749/a-bayesian-analysis-of-a-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-intervention-for-high-risk-people-on-probation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
SeungHoon Han, Jordan M Hyatt, Geoffrey C Barnes, Lawrence W Sherman
This analysis employs a Bayesian framework to estimate the impact of a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention on the recidivism of high-risk people under community supervision. The study relies on the reanalysis of experimental datal using a Bayesian logistic regression model. In doing so, new estimates of programmatic impact were produced using weakly informative Cauchy priors and the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method. The Bayesian analysis indicated that CBT reduced the prevalence of new charges for total, non-violent, property, and drug crimes...
December 7, 2023: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38053228/preface-to-special-issue-on-evaluation-of-policy-conflicts-towards-sustainable-development-goals-ii
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Avik Sinha, Mehmet Akif Destek, Daniel Balsalobre Lorente
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 5, 2023: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37982605/performance-evaluation-of-urban-emergency-governance-conceptual-connotations-and-empirical-research-based-on-the-crisis-life-cycle-theory
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Min Wang, Jiaxing Wang
Although scholars have discussed in depth about the evaluation content and the construction of evaluation index system of emergency management and crisis management, a unified and standardized interpretation of system construction concepts and empirical research on the performance evaluation of urban emergency management is still lacking. In view of this, this paper is based on the theory of the  crisis life cycle, with the four phases of urban emergency management and the content of the task as a clue, constructed a performance evaluation index system containing 12 primary indicators and 44 secondary indicators, and centered on the emergency management work situation of S city...
November 20, 2023: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37944185/effects-of-study-load-on-science-achievement-searching-for-a-turning-point-with-multilevel-piecewise-regression
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xin Ma, Xingkai Luo
With an educational issue that has caught the attention of many countries in the world (study load), a population of 8th graders from a typical Chinese metropolitan city (40,536 from 118 schools), and an advanced statistical strategy (multilevel piecewise regression), we examined whether there was a turning point in terms of the effects of study load on science achievement. We did identify a turning point for each and every measure of study load. For weekday learning on science achievement, we identified a turning point of 22...
November 9, 2023: Evaluation Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37935017/how-does-the-digital-economy-drive-high-quality-regional-development-new-evidence-from-china
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ying Guo, Fuxin Jiang
The digital economy, which boasts general technology, intense penetration, platform ecology, and low marginal cost, is a product of advanced digital technology. This new engine has become a driving force for high-quality economic development. From the three aspects of development momentum, efficiency, and structure, this paper profoundly explores internal mechanisms to lead the high-quality growth of the regional economy. By constructing an econometric model, the influence effect and means of the digital economy on the high-quality development of the regional economy are empirically tested...
November 7, 2023: Evaluation Review
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