The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy (eBook, PDF)

Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It
Redaktion: List, John; Supplee, Lauren; Suskind, Dana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability-and what enables it-in the early childhood field. Authors and editors provide specific recommendations to help professionals refine and apply the science of scaling in their programs, research, and decision making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000384291
• Artikelnr.: 61462931

Autorenporträt

John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at University of Chicago, USA and a Research Associate at the NBER. He is a Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. List served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2002 to 2003. Dana Suskind is a pediatric otolaryngologist, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program at University of Chicago, USA. Dr. Suskind is a Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. Lauren H. Supplee is a Senior Program Officer at the William T. Grant Foundation and former Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Senior Scholar in Early Childhood Research at Child Trends.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Failed to Scale: Embracing the Challenge of Scaling in Early Childhood
Part I: The Science of Early Childhood and Complexities of Scaling 2. Early
Childhood: The Opportunity to Untap Human Potential 3. How Cognitive Biases
Can Undermine Program Scale-Up Decisions 4. How a Behavioral Economic
Framework Can Support Scaling of Early Childhood Interventions 5. The
Economics of Investing in Early Childhood: Importance of Understanding the
Science of Scaling Part II: The Scale-up Effect: Understanding the Threats
to Scalability Scaling: A Case Study 6. The Science of Using Science: A New
Framework for Understanding the Threats to Scaling Evidence-Based Policies
7. When is Evidence Actionable? Assessing Whether a Program is Ready to
Scale 8. Studying Properties of the Population: Designing Studies that
Mirror Real World Scenarios 9. Fidelity and Properties of the Situation:
Challenges and Recommendations 10. Spillovers and Program Evaluation at
Scale Real-world Application and Understanding of the Threats to Scaling:
Commentary on Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 11. 70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons
from the Jamaica Experiment 12. A Research Agenda Built for Scale Part
III: Charting a Path Forward 13. Designing Programs with an Eye Toward
Scaling 14. Accounting for Differences in Population: Predicting
Intervention Impact at Scale 15. Sustaining Impact after Scaling Using Data
and Continuous Feedback 16. Measurement Built for Scale: Designing and
Using Measures of Intervention and Outcome that Facilitate Scaling Up
Commentary: Lessons Learned from Scaling Cost Measurement in Federal Early
Care and Education and Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs 17. Enabling
Contexts to Support Scale-Up: Lessons from Early Head Start-Child Care
Partnerships 18. Embedding Workforce Development into Scaled Innovations to
Prevent Declines in Administration Quality 19. Forging Collaborations for
Scale: Catalyzing Partnerships Among Policy Makers, Practitioners,
Researchers, Funders, and Evidence-to-Policy Organizations 20. Process to
Identify Effective Policies to Strengthen the Prenatal-to-Three System of
Care 21. Building Political Will 22. Recommendations for Mitigating Threats
to Scaling