Conducting Meta-Analyses of Evaluations of Government-Funded Training Programs.
Government-funded training programs in the United States have often been subject to rigorous evaluation. Indeed, many of these programs have been evaluated with random assignment, although sophisticated quasi-experimental methods have also been used. Until very recently, however, there has been litt...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 345 - 368 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May 2005
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