Pol 340 Week 5

We must also understand that many factors other than the program or policy may have caused the outcomes that we observe. We will look at the Paint Creek Youth Center evaluation to illustrate the concepts that we have studied this week. In this evaluation, a “classic experimental design was used to determine whether youths assigned to a small experimental program, . . . actually received significantly different treatment, and performed better, than control youths assigned to traditional training schools” (Greenwood