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)

www.communitybike.net

http://communitybicyclecenter.blogspot.com

http://www.facebook.com/CommunityBicycleCenter?ref=ts

"Providing Opportunities for Youth to Grow"

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/families/whatworks_06.pdf