...Patricia Lannen; Lisa Jones Purpose Calls for the development and dissemination of evidence-based programs to support children and families have been increasing for decades, but progress has been slow. This paper aims to argue that a singular focus on evaluation has limited the ways in which...

.... In the past decade, funding has been directed towards organisations to pilot innovations to support transition, with accompanying evaluations often conducted with a single disciplinary focus, in a context of short timescales and small budgets. Recognising the value and weight of the challenge involved...

...Oli Preston; Rebecca Godar; Michelle Lefevre; Janet Boddy; Carlene Firmin Purpose This paper aims to explore the possibilities in using such national, statutory data sets for evaluating change and the challenges of understanding service patterns and outcomes in complex cases when only a limited...

... can be contacted at: anna@triangleconsulting.co.uk 13 10 2020 25 03 2021 14 04 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Reliability Evaluation Validity Outcomes star Family support Family star plus...

... the internal reliability of the 10-item scale, while principal component analysis (PCA) examined the number of constructs in the tool. Using matched data from evaluation of 80 families, correlations between the Family Star Plus and psychometrically validated tools were used to assess concurrent validity...

... made in establishing a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Design/methodology/approach This paper describes an evaluation of a new intervention and the learning that followed in terms of its implementation and future evaluation. Qualitative data were collected from a range of stakeholders...

... and children. One consequence of this is that the quality of the service provided is important in its own right. Research limitations/implications It is suggested that the evaluation of Children’s Social Care involves four types of outcomes: measures of the quality of the service provided; assessment...

... problems was used as a reference for sample size calculation. According to Cohen (1992) , for a large effect size (d0.80), 21 participants per group were required for a study involving three groups. Evaluation Chinese Children Parenting training programme Randomized controlled trial...

... larger effect sizes than the USA norms. Hence, the cultural adaptation did not diminish the outcomes and SFP Portuguese families can benefit substantially from SFP participation. Originality/value – A Portuguese culturally adapted version of SFP had never been developed or evaluated; hence...

... in receipt of the programme in the first 10 sites, with the nursing staff, with members of the central team guiding the initiative and with other professionals. Analyses of data collected during programme delivery evaluate fidelity of delivery. The results indicate that the programme is perceived...

... programmes and then identify challenges to implementing and evaluating classroom‐based interventions in the after‐school setting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 After‐school Intervention Behaviour management Evaluation Piloting a classroom-based intervention in after-school...

... and students from surrounding elementary schools. We used a randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of this programme for 196 students from 11 elementary schools over one school year, focusing on academic grades and standardised test scores, confidence in academic ability, motivation and school...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Evaluation Randomisation RCT Social experiment Children's services A dark art comes to the watercooler: a review of some key texts on RCTs for children s services professionals and researchers 1 Dartington Social Research Unit, UK 2 University...