Many popular school-based prevention approaches have not been well studied to date¶
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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesisr?·q3
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q3 i? The existing research inadequately guides policy and practice because many popular school-based prevention approaches have not been well studied. → Wilson 2001
Evidence¶
Wilson 2001¶
Wilson, D.B., Gottfredson, D.C. & Najaka, S.S. (2001). School-Based Prevention of Problem Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011050217296
q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r?
The meta-analysis's assessment of the evidence base from its 165 studies. The authors identify "several inadequacies in the existing research," most notably that "many popular school-based prevention approaches have not been well studied to date." This is an interpretive statement about the literature.
"The results highlight several inadequacies in the existing research for guiding policy and practice, the most notable of which is that many popular school-based prevention approaches have not been well studied to date."
Discussion¶
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Many popular school-based prevention approaches have not been well studied to date |
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Many popular school-based prevention approaches have not been well studied to date |
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2001 |
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