Randomized evaluations & the power of evidence | Amy Finkelstein | TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2015
- Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America; and one of the world’s leading health care experts uses the results of the 2008 Oregon Medicaid Lottery to explain why researchers, governments, insurers, and health care providers can and should use randomized controlled trials to continuously improve health care outcomes for our nation's citizens.
Amy Finkelstein is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT designed to encourage and facilitate randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including the John Bates Clark Medal (2012), given annually to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. She has also received awards for graduate student teaching (2012) and graduate student advising (2010) at MIT. She is one of two Principal Investigators currently leading the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized evaluation of the impact of extending Medicaid coverage to low income, uninsured adults.
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I am teaching a MBA class on Program Evaluation in Human Services and I find your video to be a great introduction to the "why" for program evaluation.
Hi there. I am a student at Arizona State University currently in a course on research and evaluation in education. Below is my current understanding of research and evaluation, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Research: Research is an avenue through which people and groups create new knowledge. This knowledge is based on observations in settings with defined questions and variables; after the research is conducted, though, its findings may be extrapolated to different settings.
Evaluation: Evaluation is another avenue of creating new knowledge. This knowledge is then used to make claims about values associated with a particular program and lead to suggestions for improving said program. It is not as typically extrapolated.
Both research and evaluation are forms of gaining, synthesizing, and applying knowledge. However, they vary in intent. Where research aims to point out patterns in a more societally replicated phenomenon, evaluation is generally focused specifically at phenomena within a specific man-made program. Additionally, evaluation is performed with the intent to recommend improvements.
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