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Collaborative Behavioral Management for Drug-Involved Parolees: Rationale and Design of the Step'n Out Study
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Friedmann, Peter D.; Katz, Elizabeth C.; Rhodes, Anne G.; Taxman, Faye S.; O'Connell, Daniel J.; Frisman, Linda K.; Burdon, William M.; Fletcher, Bennett W.; Litt, Mark D.; Clarke, Jennifer; Martin, Steven S. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
This article describes the rationale, study design, and implementation for the Step'n Out study of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies. Step'n Out tests the relative effectiveness of collaborative behavioral management of drug-involved parolees. Collaborative behavioral management integrates the roles of parole officers and treatment…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Drug Rehabilitation
Program Improvement through Evaluation: Connecticut's First Round of Sustained Effects Studies. Feedback, Occasional Paper Number 1.
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Fitzgerald, Nicholas B. – 1986
A quality control review of Connecticut's Sustained Effects studies was undertaken by the Chapter 1 Evaluation Technical Assistance Center (TAC) operated by RMC Research Corporation. Nineteen Connecticut school districts had selected from among four basic evaluation designs in implementing the Chapter 1 Sustained Effects requirement during 1982 to…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Investigating Moderator Hypotheses in Aging Research: Statistical, Methodological, and Conceptual Difficulties with Comparing Separate Regressions
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Newsom, Jason T.; Prigerson, Holly G.; Schulz, Richard; Reynolds, Charles F., III – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2003
Many topics in aging research address questions about group differences in prediction. Such questions can be viewed in terms of interaction or moderator effects, and use of appropriate methods to test these hypotheses are necessary to arrive at accurate conclusions about age differences. This article discusses the conceptual, methodological, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Depression (Psychology), Multiple Regression Analysis, Hypothesis Testing