Affiliation:
1. National University of Ireland, Galway,
2. National University of Ireland, Galway
Abstract
The youth mentoring program Big Brothers Big Sisters is one of the first social interventions involving youth in Ireland to be evaluated using a randomized controlled trial methodology. This article sets out the design process undertaken, describing how the research team came to adopt a concurrent embedded mixed methods design as a means of balancing ethical, feasibility, and scientific issues associated with the randomized controlled trial method, establishing an epistemological position and integrating data from various methods and multiple sources.
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Education
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