Methodological challenges and proposed solutions for evaluating opioid policy effectiveness

Evaluating Payments for Environmental Services: Methodological Challenges

Over the last fifteen years, Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes have become very popular environmental policy instruments, but the academic literature has begun to question their additionality. The literature attempts to estimate the causal effect of these programs by applying impact evaluation (IE) techniques. However, PES programs are complex instruments and IE methods cannot b...

Methodological, planning and implementation challenges for rcts evaluating group interventions

Statistical concerns over the design and analysis of RCTs in which patients receive therapy as a group are well documented (see for instance, Roberts C, Clin Trials. 2005;2(2):152-62). By contrast, there is little discussion in the published literature of a range of other challenges to the success of such studies. These include how to plan for and manage: scheduling of participant recruitment, ...

A Proposed Model for Evaluating Modular Education

Introduction: Educational evaluation is one of the main elements of educational systems. It also has a particular role in different educational standards such as ISO 10015. It seems that oral and written examinations are not enough for an effective evaluation of instructions. In order to accomplish an efficient educational evaluation, an evaluation model was designed for educational assessment ...

Climate Science and Policy Research Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

‘Doing’ health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

The case for undertaking policy analysis has been made by a number of scholars and practitioners. However, there has been much less attention given to how to do policy analysis, what research designs, theories or methods best inform policy analysis. This paper begins by looking at the health policy environment, and some of the challenges to researching this highly complex phenomenon. It focuses...