Strength of Evidence Sample Clauses

Strength of Evidence. Panels should evaluate the information in the proposals about any evidence ratings assigned to similar interventions by relevant clearinghouses regarding the causal impact of the proposal intervention. The panels should refer to the criteria from the Department of Labor’s Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR), the Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), the Administration for Children and Families’ Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse, and other similar clearinghouses to determine the level of each proposal’s claims of causal evidence. The clearinghouses rate causal studies. (Non-causal studies are not eligible for ratings, but the clearinghouses have provided guidelines for reviewing such studies that promote quality and consistency.) The clearinghouses assign causal studies one of three evidence ratings: high, moderate, or low. A high rating denotes strong evidence that the effect observed are solely attributable to the intervention. A moderate rating denotes some evidence that the effects are at least partially attributable to the intervention. A low rating denotes that there is little evidence that any effects observed can be attributed to the intervention. More information about the rating process can be found in publicly available reference documents for the CLEAR review process.7 In connection with this consideration, panels will award more points to applications providing greater evidence in support of the intervention and its specified outcomes or that propose methods that are likely to provide causal evidence. In particular, points will be awarded for evidence based on previous interventions or interventions similar to the proposed intervention that were shown to produce the desired outcomes as a direct result of the intervention and not as a result of other factors. If the proposed project builds on any prior research that has been previously reviewed and rated by a clearinghouse, such information should be included in the project narrative (see Section IV.B.ii.3). For proposed projects that do not build on research that has been previously reviewed and rated by a clearinghouse, the project narrative should include information about the rating the project would likely receive under the clearinghouses’ criteria based on their design.