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Environmental Program Evaluation

Session 8

Impact Evaluation: Designs with Strict Control on Program Access

Text

Rossi, Peter H.; Mark W. Lipsey and Gary T. Henry (2019) Evaluation: A Systematic Approach. (8th Edition) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Chapter 8.

Glossary

Slides & Illustrations

Chapter Eight Illustrations; Chapter Eight Slides; Randomized Control Trials; Randomized Designs;

Key Concepts

  • Assignment variable (188)
  • Cluster randomized trial (195)
  • Control group (186)
  • Effectiveness evaluation (190)
  • Efficacy evaluation (190)
  • Intent-to-treat (ITT) effects (194)
  • Quantitative assignment variable (188)
  • Random Assignment (187)
  • Randomized control design (186)
  • Regression discontinuity design (186)
  • Treatment-on-the-treated (TOT) effects (194)

Homework: (Discussion Questions & Application Exercise)

 

For this Application Exercise answer question 2 above and then review this case study:

Maurya, Vishwa Nath, Ram Bilas Misra, Peter K. Anderson, and Swammy Vashist (2016) "A Case Study on Water Supply Acess and Demand Using Descriptive Statistical Methods," American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics. Vol. 2, No. 2 (June), p. 7-12.

Having reviewed this case study on water supply and access explain how the ethical considerations discussed in Chapter 8 may be applicable to this case study.

NOTE: Submit the questions with your answers in World format as attachments to Canvas email and submit this homework - complete with APA citations and references - to the instructor by no later than 5 pm on the last day of Session 1 (as designated on the course schedule page that is linked above).