Educational effectiveness approaches in early childhood research across Europe

Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research

Technology and literacy in early childhood educational settings: a review of research

This literature review provides an overview of research into technology and literacy for children aged 0-8 in educational settings from 2003-2009. The paper begins by exploring the different assumptions about the role of digital texts that underpin the studies considered, identifying three loose categories of studies which position technology as: deliverer of literacy; site for interaction arou...

Evaluating disease management programmes: Learning from diverse approaches across Europe

The DISMEVAL consortium (Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems, a consortium of ten partners in seven countries led by RAND Europe), examined approaches to chronic disease management in 13 countries across Europe and tested the methods being used to evaluate these in six countries. The DISMEVAL project: • demonstrated that the nature and...

The Localization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Research in Europe

Background: Clinical research is a specific phase of the production process in the pharmaceutical industry in which companies test candidate drugs on patients in order to collect clinical evidence about safety and effectiveness.Objective: This paper is an operational research which aimed to support the hypothesis that pharmaceutical clinical research is l...

Tuning Educational Structures in Europe