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RCT-YES
RCT-YES is a free software tool that allows you to easily analyze data and report results on the effectiveness of programs in your context.
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Designing and Analyzing Studies That Randomize Schools to Estimate Intervention Effects on Student Academic Outcomes without Classroom-Level Information
This MDRC publication provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing and analyzing studies that randomize schools—which comprise three levels of clustering (students in classrooms in schools)—to measure intervention effects on student academic outcomes when information on the middle level (classrooms) is missing.
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From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes
"From Soft Skills to Hard Data reviews ten youth outcome measurement tools that are appropriate for use in after-school and other settings. For each tool, it provides sample items and crucial information about usability, cost, and evidence of reliability and validity. A companion to the Forum’s Measuring Youth Program Quality, the guide can help providers select conceptually grounded, psychometrically sound measures appropriate for programs that serve upper-elementary- through high school-aged youth."
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MET Database at the Institute for Social Research
This site enables users to apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Studying the Reliability of Group-Level Measures with Implications for Statistical Power: A Six-Step Paradigm
Many youth development programs aim to improve youth outcomes by raising the quality of social interactions occurring in groups such as classrooms, athletic teams, therapy groups, after-school programs, or recreation centers. As a result, evaluators are increasingly interested in determining whether such programs significantly improve “group quality.” This paper consider methods for studying the reliability of measures of group quality, with implications for the design of evaluation studies, and illustrates these methods using a large-scale data set on classroom observations.
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Optimal Design with Empirical Information (OD+)
This software includes a series of empirical estimates of plausible parameter values for determining the minimum effect size that can be detected by a given number, size, and treatment/group mix of randomized groups.
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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools, 2nd Edition
The Forum for Youth Investment developed this report to help individuals and systems make sound decisions about what assessment tools and related resources will best meet their program assessment and improvement needs.
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