The challenges of contamination in evaluations of childhood interventions

Evaluation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-194

  Doyle, Orla ^a   Hickey, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Barnardos ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

childhood intervention; contamination; experimental design; quasi experimental design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876168644     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389013482610     Document Type: Article

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