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Intent-to-treat and instrumental-variable estimation for nonadherence in educational micro-randomized trials

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The article identifies adherence to prompts as a major methodological challenge in educational micro-randomized trials, since education often targets the effect of a behavior on a different outcome rather than the behavior itself. It recommends estimating the effect of randomized prompts regardless of whether the behavior was performed — analogous to an intent-to-treat analysis — and using instrumental variable estimation to recover the effect of the behavior when adherence is not perfect, noting the applicability of these approaches still remains to be thoroughly investigated.

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  • Adhere to intent-to-treat estimation and instrumented designs when prompts may not be followed: The article identifies adherence to prompts as a major methodological challenge in educational micro-randomized trials, since education often targets the effect of a behavior on a different outcome rather than the behavior itself. It recommends estimating the effect of randomized prompts regardless of whether the behavior was performed — analogous to an intent-to-treat analysis — and using instrumental variable estimation to recover the effect of the behavior when adherence is not perfect, noting the applicability of these approaches still remains to be thoroughly investigated. (Breitwieser et al. (2024))

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  • Breitwieser, J., Neubauer, A. B., Schmiedek, F. & Brod, G. (2024). Realizing the potential of mobile interventions for education. npj Science of Learning, 9, 76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00289-9
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title Intent-to-treat and instrumental-variable estimation for nonadherence in educational micro-randomized trials
description The article identifies adherence to prompts as a major methodological challenge in educational micro-randomized trials, since education often targets the effect of a behavior on a different outcome rather than the behavior itself.
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