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The Use of Archival Data To Select and Assign Schools in a Drug Prevention Trial

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  • Clyde W. Dent

    (University of Southern California)

  • Steve Sussman

    (University of Southern California)

  • Brian R. Flay

    (University of Illinois)

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School-based prevention trials typically face large variations in school composition and levels ofpreintervention behavior. Such variations may inhibit efforts to maximize internal and external validity. This article presents a method for using school-level attributes in sample description and random assignment of schools to conditions. The utility of the archival data was examined using multivanate canonical techniques. The authors found that a small set of attributes could efficiently predict the observed school-level variations in smoking and other drug use. It is recommended that these attributes be used by other school-based studies to enhance experimen talfield studies.

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  • Clyde W. Dent & Steve Sussman & Brian R. Flay, 1993. "The Use of Archival Data To Select and Assign Schools in a Drug Prevention Trial," Evaluation Review, , vol. 17(2), pages 159-181, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:17:y:1993:i:2:p:159-181
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9301700203
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