The French Research Program: 'Écologie Urbaine', First Evaluation

Program Evaluation and Research Designs∗

This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of “program” in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of Thistlethwaite and Campbell (1960). We organize our discussion of these various research designs by how t...

EVALUATION DRIVEN RESEARCH: The Foundation of the TIPSTER Text Program

I have been fortunate to have bad the opportunity to be associated with the TIPSTER Text Program since its inception in 1989. Preliminary discussions among government researchers who were interested in establishing a major, new interagency text handling, processing, and exploitation program began in the Summer of that year and continued in earnest during the months that followed. Most of our fr...

Quantitative Evaluation of the Community Research Fellows Training Program

CONTEXT The community research fellows training (CRFT) program is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative for the St. Louis area. This 15-week program, based on a Master in Public Health curriculum, was implemented by the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center. OBJECTIVES We measure the knowledge gained b...

French research split

Life scientists are rapidly waking up to the threat to their future in the face of France's announcement of a break-up of the CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France's major research organisation — amid a raft of other concerns. The winter of 2003–04 was one of discontent for French scientists, who demonstrated in masses against government policies that they felt were forcin...

French public research--saved?