The NITT-HT national evaluation will use a pre/post, longitudinal follow-up design with matched comparison groups where relevant and possible. It will combine qualitative and quantitative data and methodologies to fully address SAMHSAâs objectives for the national evaluation and will include process as well as outcome components. Feedback on the NITT-HT evaluation design and data collection instruments has been solicited from internal SAMHSA staff, grantee-level project directors and local evaluators, and an expert advisory panel. After careful review, revisions were made to streamline the instruments, reduce burden, simplify wording, increase variation in response options, improve coherence of scales for summing, and create consistency in assessing infrastructure at the learning laboratory and grantee/state levels.
US Code:
42 USC 520(a)
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