Hierarchies of evidence: reimagining social policy
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The Importance of Context in Early Childhood Program Evaluation
Context matters and you need to have your evaluations carried out in a context which is as close as possible to the one where you intend to implement. A good randomised trial should engage with those who are part of the trial, those administering and those who are subject in the trial. If you don't do that then you'll end up with junk results like early AIDS trials when patients didn't know which group they were in so scientists mixed chemicals for everyone. Good randomised trials have consented at their heart and ensure that the patients are part ofthe evidence journey. And can we go into more detail about how participants kind of fit into that evidence? Is it about informing people and ensuring there's
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