Hi,
Several
of you have asked for a definition of “evidenced based programs.”
Please refer to the link listed below.
Also
below is part of a response I received from Charles Hammond.
Take
care.
Andy
“To answer your first question, I tend toward
"research-based" youth programs, which imply the same scientific
rigor as "evidence-based" programs, but encompass a wider range of
definitions of evidence and scientific methods. Evidence-based usually connotes
the attempt to reproduce intervention outcomes to the same truth standards as
the physical sciences. I find much quantitative evidence in the social sciences
to be questionable because the researcher has neglected to scrutinize his or
her own bias sufficiently in creating the experimental design.
I would consider some of the work done in bicycle programs in Seattle, Eugene,
Indianapolis,
and Boston, for example,
to be research-based. But if you know of educational bicycle/mentoring programs
that consider themselves evidence-based, I would very much like to know about
them. The "production school"-type institution I'd like to help
create would be strongly research-based, and I'm working on a proposal to a research
foundation to create such a venture.” Charles Hammond
Andy Greif,
Executive Director
Community Bicycle
Center
Shop: 284 Hill Street, Biddeford
Mail: P.O. Box 783, Biddeford,
ME 04005
207-282-9700
(shop) 207-229-8199 (cell)
"Providing Opportunities for Youth to Grow"