Summer Research Training Institute: Cluster-Randomized Trials: Tentative List of Course Topics
- Planning the Evaluation
- Specifying the Conceptual and Operational Models; Formulating Precise Questions
- Describing and Quantifying Outcomes
- Assessment of Treatment Implementation/Assessment of Control Condition
- Introducing the Group Activity Assignment
- Basic Experimental Design with Special Considerations for Education Studies
- Statistical Analysis Overview
- Modeling Growth in Trials
- Sample Size and Statistical Power
- Sampling and External Validity
- Alternatives to Randomized Trials
- Implementing the Evaluation
- Recruitment of Sites and Participants
- Data Collection in the Field
- Data Analysis
- Analyzing Intervention Effects
- Handling Missing Data in the Analysis of Trials
- Reporting Guidelines
