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SUMMARY:Navigating ethical and compliance issues in developing causal conc
 lusions from randomized field trials: A case study - Professor Brain Junke
 r\, Department of Statistics\, Carnegie Mellon University\, Pittsburgh
DTSTART:20081208T113000Z
DTEND:20081208T130000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Rust
DESCRIPTION:U.S. research funding in education today encourages comparativ
 e designs for causal inference\, especially randomized field trials (RFT's
 )\, quasiexperiments\, regression discontinuity designs\, etc. As in medic
 ine\, there are ethical concerns about withholding or providing differenti
 al interventions\; as well as practical political concerns about maintaini
 ng experimental control (treatment fidelity\, compliance with randomizatio
 n\, etc.) in social experiments. The need for adequate sample sizes to det
 ect educational treatment effects often requires researchers to accumulate
  data across several different levels: students\, teachers\, coaches\, pri
 ncipals\, central office\, etc.) in an educational system. Maintaining mut
 ually reinforcing partnerships that support experimental control at each l
 evel raises special challenges. We explore these challenges in our ongoing
  Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) funded RFT designed to evaluate a
  coach training intervention in terms of student outcomes. Some of the cha
 llenges can be met by fairly straightforward design\, management and stati
 stical adjustment strategies. Others raise issues about what can be learne
 d from controlled comparative studies designed to evaluate system-changing
  interventions.\n\nThe Psychometrics Centre is grateful to the MRC Biostat
 istics Unit for co-hosting this event.
LOCATION:Small Seminar Room\, Institute of Public Health\, Forvie Site\, A
 ddenbrookes Hospital
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