Was There a Riverside Miracle? A Hierarchical Framework for Evaluating Programs With Grouped Data
是否存在 Riverside 奇迹?利用分组数据评估项目的层级框架
sites. Two frequently used methods are pooling the data or using fixed effects (an extreme version of which estimates separate models for each site). The former approach ignores site effects. The latter incorporates site effects but lacks a framework for predicting the impact of subsequent implementations of the program (e.g., would a new implementation resemble Riverside?). I present a hierarchical model that lies between these two extremes. Using data from the Greater…