Researching outcomes of educational interventions

Evaluating and researching the effectiveness of educational interventions.

of the study itself. (b) Does it discuss the strengths and the weaknesses of the study in relation to other studies? Strengths and weaknesses should then be discussed in relation to previous studies. Any differences in results, and why different conclusions have been reached, should particularly be emphasised. (c) Does it discuss the meaning and implications of the results? Next, the “meaning” ...

Educational Interventions to Improve Asthma Outcomes in Children

554 JCOM October 2007 Vol. 14, No. 10 www.turner-white.com abstract • Objective: To present an overview of educational interventions to assist children with managing their asthma. • Methods: Review of exemplary, well-conducted studies and meta-analyses. • Results: Educational interventions for children in clinical settings have proven effective in achieving clinical outcomes. Education provided...

Researching Complex Interventions in Health: The State of the Art

S Open Access Researching Complex Interventions in Health: The State of the Art Exeter, UK. 14-15 October 2015 Published: 4 April 2016 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS K1 Researching complex interventions: the need for robust approaches Peter Craig ([email protected]) MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), University of Glasgow, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3QB, UK BMC Health S...

Scaling Up Educational Interventions

Some educational interventions successfully “scale up.” Others do not. Little— arguably, almost nothing—is known about the factors that lead to successful scaling up. The goal of this chapter is to identify a number of these factors through a disciplined and methodologically rigorous approach. The difficulties associated with scaling up can broadly be summarized as falling into two classes: (1)...

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