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S K Reed

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PubMed1991

Methodology for evaluating the Monroe-Livingston capitation system.

This paper presents the methodology for evaluating the Monroe-Livingston demonstration project's capitation payment system (CPS), based in Rochester, New York, for chronic mentally ill patients. To allow for both patient and provider choice within the experimental design, 1,587 CPS-eligible patients were randomly assigned at the start of the study to control or experimental conditions, with the intent of capturing in the experimental group a significant number of patients who would later be enrolled in the CPS. Protocols, which included measures of symptomatology, functioning, and resource utilization, were completed at baseline for 422 of the 605 patients contacted for inclusion in the study. The baseline control group included 143 patients; the experimental group included 279 patients, 153 of whom were eventually enrolled in the CPS.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Selecting analogous problems: similarity versus inclusiveness.

Students were asked to select one of two analogous problems in order to solve algebra word problems. In Experiment 1, one problem was less inclusive and the other was more inclusive than a test problem. The students judged the complexity and similarity of problems, selected analogous problems, and used the solutions to solve test problems. They performed significantly better on the test problems when given the more inclusive solutions, but used perceived similarity rather than inclusiveness to select analogous problems. The same pattern of results occurred in Experiment 2, in which isomorphic problems replaced the more inclusive problems. The results show that students are deficient in selecting good analogies, both from the same category (Experiment 1) and from a different category (Experiment 2). Students who saw the analogous solutions (Experiment 3) or were majoring in mathematics (Experiment 4) were more likely to select an isomorphic problem over a less inclusive problem, but were not more likely to select a more inclusive over a less inclusive problem.

Concept Formation↗