Sources for Charity Assessment Game Answers
This game was adapted from a learning module produced by The High Impact NetworK (THINK).
Many of these studies used Random Control Trials to evaulate whether the charities were having an impact. You can learn more about this methodology and the profound impact it can have on the world in this fascinating TED talk by Esther Duflo.
Many of these studies used Random Control Trials to evaulate whether the charities were having an impact. You can learn more about this methodology and the profound impact it can have on the world in this fascinating TED talk by Esther Duflo.
Round #1: Scared Straight
Anthony Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin Petrosino, John Buehler. “Scared Straight” and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2004:2, p. 8. http://www.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Scared%20Straight/Campbell%20Scared%20Straight%20review.pdf
http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=24362
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110918204528AATzSdS&r=w
Round #2: Nurse-Family Partnership
http://evidencebasedprograms.org/wordpress/?page_id=57
Round #3: Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
http://www.evidencebasedprograms.org/static/interventions/substanceabuse/dare.htm vi
Round #4: 21st Century Community Learning Centers
http://www.evidencebasedprograms.org/static/interventions/education/21stcentury.htm
Round #5: 21st Century Community Learning Centers
http://www.evidencebasedprograms.org/static/interventions/education/21stcentury.htm
Round #6: Even Start Family Literacy Program
http://www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/early_education/pdfs/Besharov_ECE%20assessments_Even_Start_3rd%20 evaluation.pdf , pp. 11-3, 11-4.
Round #7: Big Brothers Big Sisters
http://evidencebasedprograms.org/wordpress/?page_id=117
Round #8: Top 16 Educational Software
Dynarski, Mark, Roberto Agodini, Sheila Heaviside, Timothy Novak, Nancy Carey, Larissa Campuzano, Barbara Means, Robert Murphy, William Penuel, Hal Javitz, Deborah Emery, and Willow Sussex. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2007, p. xiii. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pdf/20074005.pdf
Anthony Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin Petrosino, John Buehler. “Scared Straight” and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2004:2, p. 8. http://www.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Scared%20Straight/Campbell%20Scared%20Straight%20review.pdf
http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=24362
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110918204528AATzSdS&r=w
Round #2: Nurse-Family Partnership
http://evidencebasedprograms.org/wordpress/?page_id=57
Round #3: Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
http://www.evidencebasedprograms.org/static/interventions/substanceabuse/dare.htm vi
Round #4: 21st Century Community Learning Centers
http://www.evidencebasedprograms.org/static/interventions/education/21stcentury.htm
Round #5: 21st Century Community Learning Centers
http://www.evidencebasedprograms.org/static/interventions/education/21stcentury.htm
Round #6: Even Start Family Literacy Program
http://www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/early_education/pdfs/Besharov_ECE%20assessments_Even_Start_3rd%20 evaluation.pdf , pp. 11-3, 11-4.
Round #7: Big Brothers Big Sisters
http://evidencebasedprograms.org/wordpress/?page_id=117
Round #8: Top 16 Educational Software
Dynarski, Mark, Roberto Agodini, Sheila Heaviside, Timothy Novak, Nancy Carey, Larissa Campuzano, Barbara Means, Robert Murphy, William Penuel, Hal Javitz, Deborah Emery, and Willow Sussex. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2007, p. xiii. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pdf/20074005.pdf
