tomwein, I just looked through the RCT. The reduction in violence is indeed significant and promising. In terms of test scores, though, they report “There was no evidence that the intervention had an impact on any educational test scores”. Test scores and income were the main metrics we were focusing on for education interventions, so this intervention doesn’t seem like a good match to the donors’ preferences at this stage. From reading the RCT, it seems that studies about violence prevention in school are quite novel and that the evidence base is still thin, so again this wouldn’t match well with the donors’ wish to support interventions with strong evidence of effectiveness. Though obviously it’s very valuable to be gathering evidence given the lack of previous studies.
tomwein, I just looked through the RCT. The reduction in violence is indeed significant and promising. In terms of test scores, though, they report “There was no evidence that the intervention had an impact on any educational test scores”. Test scores and income were the main metrics we were focusing on for education interventions, so this intervention doesn’t seem like a good match to the donors’ preferences at this stage. From reading the RCT, it seems that studies about violence prevention in school are quite novel and that the evidence base is still thin, so again this wouldn’t match well with the donors’ wish to support interventions with strong evidence of effectiveness. Though obviously it’s very valuable to be gathering evidence given the lack of previous studies.