This course is aimed at intervention scientists working in any area--including public health, education, criminal justice, and others—interested in learning about an innovative framework for conducting intervention research. This course will show you how to use the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) to: streamline interventions by eliminating inactive components; identify the combination of components that offers the greatest effectiveness without exceeding a defined implementation budget; develop interventions for immediate scalability; look inside the “black box” to understand which intervention components work and which do not; and improve interventions programmatically over time. In this course you will relate the MOST framework to your research objectives; learn how MOST differs from the standard approach to intervention development and evaluation; learn how to complete the preparation and optimization phases of MOST; and become familiar with rigorous and highly efficient experimental designs that will enable you to examine the performance of individual intervention components.
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Introduction to the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST)
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Statistics for the behavioral/social sciences at least through multiple regression
Background in behavioral intervention science
Approx. 18 hours to complete
English
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Statistics for the behavioral/social sciences at least through multiple regression
Background in behavioral intervention science
Approx. 18 hours to complete
English
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Week 1 - MOST is a different way of thinking
3 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 81 min), 2 readings
3 hours to complete
Week 2 - The preparation phase: Laying the foundation for successful optimization
3 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 51 min), 1 reading
4 hours to complete
Week 3 - Introduction to the factorial optimization trial
4 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 89 min), 2 readings
3 hours to complete
Week 4 - Some conceptual and technical aspects of the factorial experiment
3 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 78 min), 1 reading
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