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title: "Evaluating What Works"
author: "Dorothy V M Bishop and Paul A Thompson"
date: "2023-12-09T13:28:40Z"
tags: [Education]
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Introduction to methods for evaluating effectiveness of non-medical interventions [...] Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people’s lives better. Often, however, it is hard to know how effective we have been: would change have occurred if we hadn’t intervened? Is it possible we are doing more harm than good? To answer these questions and develop a body of knowledge about what works, we need to evaluate interventions. As we shall see, demonstrating that an intervention has an impact is much harder than it appears at first sight. There are all kinds of issues ...
