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Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research

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Summary<br />

• ITS is a very powerful design, but feasibility depends<br />

on the availability of a good archived outcome, or<br />

ability to gather original data<br />

• Much prior in<strong>for</strong>mation is available in education, at<br />

individual, cohort and school levels<br />

• But it is not much used in education outside of<br />

special education with individual cases. Why?<br />

Its use is not recommended without a comparison<br />

time series due to unclear extrapolations from<br />

pretest alone and uncertainty about when an effect<br />

should appear

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