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EVALUATION-BASED EFFECTIVENESS TESTING

Award Number: R43DA026219
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/15/2008
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/30/2009

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EVALUATION-BASED EFFECTIVENESS TESTING - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Schools, communities, and service providers are beginning to implement programs with proven or promising potential. As part of this dissemination effort, local implementers are often required to conduct local evaluations. These evaluations, however, are often underpowered, lack appropriate or any comparison group, and are subject to attenuated effectiveness estimates due to unreliable measures or sample invariance. The goal of this SBIR is to develop a tool to help local evaluators and policy makers obtain valid, reliable, and robust evidence for the effectiveness of their intervention practices without the burden of having to identify convene, maintain, and measure a local comparison group. The system will meta-analytically combine archived data from prior evaluations, including evaluation data from intervention groups of relevant programs and from control groups to establish appropriate counterfactuals for local evaluators. Strategies will be developed that will allow users to complete analyses that will useful for interpreting local evaluation outcomes. Thus, rather than relying on a typically unobtainable gold-standard method for assessing impact (randomized control trials), the goal of this approach will be to provide a statistically reliable method for determining local program performance and to provide programs useful benchmarks against which local evaluation findings can be interpreted. This project will take advantage of an existing resource, previously developed with SBIR funds that assists schools and communities in performing local evaluations. This existing system, Evaluation Lizard, is now an active service and has, during the past several years amassed a large database that includes not only survey data on behavioral outcomes, mediators related to outcomes, and demographic information about survey participants, but also ties these data to programs being implemented and the evaluation design that was adopted. In this Phase I project we will: 1) We will assemble extant datasets that are appropriate for completing a pilot test of proposed methods and ensure that data are coded to provide appropriate pools of results for completing meta-analytic analyses; 2) refine meta-analytic statistical methods for completing comparisons using referent data; and 3) test these methods using data from five to ten local evaluations to develop and then demonstrate the utility of the proposed methods for local program evaluators, service providers, and funders. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2008 ( Subtotal = $156,932 )
2008	2008	TANGLEWOOD RESEARCH, INC	420-A GALLIMORE DAIRY ROAD	GREENSBORO	NC	27409	GUILFORD	USA	Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs	000	1	7/9/2008	NEW	$156,932
														Subtotal = $156,932

Grand Total All Awards = $156,932

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EVALUATION-BASED EFFECTIVENESS TESTING

Award Number: R43DA026219

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/15/2008

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/30/2009

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