How to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention : evaluating the impact of the philosophy for children programme on students' skills

Evaluations of school-based interventions are and should be conducted in order to examine the programme effectiveness and whether and how these programmes should be implemented in schools. Over the last century Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) have been seen as the 'gold standard' for e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ventista, Ourania Maria (Author)
Other Authors Brown, Chris (writer of foreword.)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800430044
DOI10.1108/9781800430020
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 168 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. How to conduct a multidimensional programme evaluation
  • Chapter 3. Philosophy for children: Discussing about pedagogy
  • Chapter 4. Systematic literature review: Evaluating the available evidence
  • Chapter 5. Generating new evidence
  • Chapter 6. Evaluating the impact on thinking skills: Working definitions
  • Chapter 7. Assessing students' thinking skills
  • Chapter 8. The findings of the quasi-experimental study
  • Chapter 9. Secondary data analysis: Evaluating the long-term impact of the programme
  • Chapter 10. Combining the evidence: Deciding about the programme effectiveness
  • Chapter 11. Recommendations: When and how should the programme be implemented in the classrooms?
  • Chapter 12. Concluding thoughts.