Discuss how exclusion from testing and missing data will be handled in your analysis. If you intend to link multiple data sets, provide sufficient detail for reviewers to judge the feasibility of the linking plan. Cost Analysis: Include a description of your plan to conduct a cost analysis. The cost analysis should help schools and districts understand the monetary of implementing the intervention (e.g., expenditures for personnel, facilities, equipment, materials, training, and other relevant inputs). Annual costs should be assessed to adequately reflect expenditures across the lifespan of the program (e.g., start-up costs and maintenance costs). Intervention costs can be contrasted with the costs of comparison group practice to reflect the difference between them. The Institute is not asking for an economic evaluation of the program (e.g., cost-benefit, cost-utility, or cost-effectiveness analyses), although such analyses can be proposed. In your plan, you should include information about the following: how you will identify all potential expenditures; how you will compute per-unit costs for each expenditure; how you will separate start-up costs from annual maintenance costs and how you will estimate the total cost of each; and the degree to which your cost analysis, based on your study’s sample, will generalize to other schools and districts. Retrospective studies and follow-up studies of students who received an intervention may, but are not required to, include a plan to conduct a cost analysis. If information about implementation cost is available, the inclusion of a plan to analyze those costs strengthens the application. Timeline: Provide a timeline for each step in your evaluation, including such actions as sample selection and assignment, baseline data collection, intervention implementation, ongoing data collections, fidelity of implementation and comparison group practice study, impact analysis, and dissemination. Indicate procedures to guard against bias entering into the data collection process (e.g., pretests occurring after the intervention has been implemented or differential timing of assessments for treatment and control groups). Timelines may be placed in either the Project Narrative or but may only be discussed in the Project Narrative. The purpose of this section is to describe the relevant expertise of your research Personnel – team, the responsibilities of each team member, and each team member’s time commitments. Requirements: In order to be responsive and sent forward for scientific peer review, applications under the Efficacy/Replication goal must describe The research team.
Discuss how exclusion from testing and missing data will be handled in your analysis. If you intend to link multiple data sets, provide sufficient detail for reviewers to judge the feasibility of the linking plan. Cost Analysis: Include a description of your plan to conduct a cost analysis. The cost analysis should help schools and districts understand the monetary of implementing the intervention (e.g., expenditures for personnel, facilities, equipment, materials, training, and other relevant inputs). Annual costs should be assessed to adequately reflect expenditures across the lifespan of the program (e.g., start-up costs and maintenance costs). Intervention costs can be contrasted with the costs of comparison group practice to reflect the difference between them. The Institute is not asking for an economic evaluation of the program (e.g., cost-benefit, cost-utility, or cost-effectiveness analyses), although such analyses can be proposed. In your plan, you should include information about the following: how you will identify all potential expenditures; how you will compute per-unit costs for each expenditure; how you will separate start-up costs from annual maintenance costs and how you will estimate the total cost of each; and the degree to which your cost analysis, based on your study’s sample, will generalize to other schools and districts. Retrospective studies and follow-up studies of students who received an intervention may, but are not required to, include a plan to conduct a cost analysis. If information about implementation cost is available, the inclusion of a plan to analyze those costs strengthens the application. Timeline: Provide a timeline for each step in your evaluation, including such actions as sample selection and assignment, baseline data collection, intervention implementation, ongoing data collections, fidelity of implementation and comparison group practice study, impact analysis, and dissemination. Indicate procedures to guard against bias entering into the data collection process (e.g., pretests occurring after the intervention has been implemented or differential timing of assessments for treatment and control groups). Timelines may be placed in either the Project Narrative or but may only be discussed in the Project Narrative. Personnel – The purpose of this section is to describe the relevant expertise of your research team, the responsibilities of each team member, and each team member’s time commitments. Requirements: In order to be responsive and sent forward for scientific peer review, applications under the Efficacy/Replication goal must describe The research team.
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