1) Review the “Program Rating Sheets Training Manual”:
2) Read the McNeil & Binder article (2007):
3) Complete Ratings Sheet Part 1 for Assignment 2:
4) Complete Ratings Sheet Part 2 for Assignment 3:
*Please note that not every single line in the ratings sheets have to be filled. Please just answer to the best of your ability.
*Writer, if you need help understanding the assignment better, please let me know. And I can provide you with examples of how this particular assignment is supposed to be done.
SOME ADVICE FOR SUCCESS: Each item that gets a numeric rating also needs a NOTE below that score that explains to me that you know WHY you gave that score. (For example, the note for the item on “Instrumentation” needs to talk about why the main measures were or were not reliable and valid, not about how the study used a large sample or followed participants for 12 months post-program, etc). You will lose points for each SCORE and each NOTE that are not correct. Even if a rating is N/A, you still need to say why it was N/A for this study (e.g., Displacement).
Note also that the important outcomes (Changes to client behavior) for the Part 2 Rating Sheet are New Crime Charges and New Violent Crime Charges. Each of these is also compared in “MHC Participants” vs. “All Comparison Subjects”; and again in “MHC Completers” vs. “All Comparison Subjects.” Any other outcomes are less important.
