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
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Mail: P.O. Box 783, Biddeford, ME 04005
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