7:00 – 7:45

Breakfast

8:00 – 9:30

Plenary Session

• Welcome to the Eighth Annual International Campbell Collaboration Colloquium
  
  
• Greetings from the Province of British Columbia
  
  
• “Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decision-Making in Criminal Justice – The Case of British Columbia’s Marijuana Grow-Ops”
  Darryl Plecas, RCMP University Research Chair in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley

9:30 – 10:00

Nutrition Break / Poster Session

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #1 - Evidence

• Developing evidence-based practice guidelines for integrated social and health care - Nick Gould – University of Bath
  
  

• Evidence For Policy In Scotland: The Case For More Reviews – Diana Wilkinson – Scottish Government
  
  
•  From Research to Decision Making: A Knowledge Transfer Experience in Education - Pierre Chenard – Université de Montréal; Pierre Doray – Université du Québec à Montréal; Geneviève Gourde – Université du Québec; Amélie Groleau – Université du Québec à Montréal

Discussant: Cecile Lacombe, Ph. D., Director of Housing Research, Cross Government Research, Policy and Practice Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #1(a) - Methods

• Using mixed methods reviews to integrate qualitative research and trials - Angela Harden - EPPI-Centre, University of London
  
  

• The use of meta-analysis for research synthesis in sociology -Bernd Weiss - University of Cologne
  
  
• Where does economics fit in? Incorporating economics perspectives and evidence into Campbell Reviews - Ian Shemilt and  Miranda Mugford – University of East Anglia  

Discussant - Evert Lindquist, Director and Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #1(b) -Methods

• Reviewing systematic reviews: Detecting minimum effect size for WWC computer-based interventions - Andrei Streke and Tsze Chan – American Institutes for Research
  
  
• How many studies, of what quality are enough to decide what works? Mark Newman – EPPI-Centre, University of London
  
  
• RCTs for policy interventions?: A review of reviews and meta-regression - James Thomas and Sandy Oliver - EPPI-Centre, University of London
  
  
• N = 1 Experiments: Their Role in Evidence-based Practice         Bruce Thyer - College of Social Work Florida State University

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #1 – Education

• Meta-Analysis of Verbal Redundancy - Olusola O. Adesope and  John C. Nesbit – Simon Fraser University
  
  
• Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) Task and Reading: A Meta-Analysis - Eugene Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Norman Segalowitz and  Anna Sokolovskaya - Concordia University
  
  
• Early Years Instructional Program Evaluation - Claude Lauzon – Robert Coughlin

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #1 – Social Welfare

• Current evidence base for Treatment Foster Care programs – William Turner – University of Bristol; Geraldine Macdonald – Queen’s University Belfast
  
  
• Effects of interventions for substantiated child abuse and neglect- a survey of systematic reviews - Carina Gustafsson, Johan Glad, and Edith Orem - National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
  
  
• Welfare-to-Work Programs in America, 1980 to 2005: Meta-Analytic Evidence of the Importance of Job and Child Care Availability  - Kevin M. Gorey – University of Windsor

Discussant -  Coralie Breen, Senior Advisor Workforce Strategies, Workforce Strategies Branch, Talent Management Division, BC Public Service Agency

10:00 – 11:30

Training Session # 1(a)

• An Introduction to Systematic Reviews - Jeff Valentine – University of Louisville

12:30 – 14:00

Symposium #1

• Symposium on C2 and Partnering Organizations - Merete Konnerup – Nordic Campbell Centre; David Gough – EPPI Centre; Alan Pearson – Joanna Briggs Institute; Aron Shlonsky – University of Toronto

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #1 - Evidence

• Implications of WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health for Campbell and Cochrane Systematic Reviews: Peter Tugwell - University of Ottawa; Mike Kelly - National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK; Vivian Robinson -  University of Ottawa; Josiane Bonnefoy -  Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile; Mark Petticrew – National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK; Elizabeth Kristjansson- University of Ottawa; Erin Morris - University of Ottawa; Marion Doull -  University of Ottawa Emma Stewart- National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence

12:30 – 14:00

Paper Session #1 – Crime and Justice

• Evidence based policy into practice: evidence of effective interventions presented to a local crime - John Middleton - Sandwell Primary Care Trust
  
  
• Effects of Beverage Alcohol Price and Tax Levels on Drinking: A Meta-Analysis - Alexander C. Wagenaar and Kelli A. Komro – University of Florida
  
  
• A Rapid Evidence Assessment: Persistent and Prolific Offenders Amanda Perry – University of York; Mark Newman – EPPI Centre, University of London

Discussant - Colleen Rice, Special Advisor, Deputy Ministers’ policy Secretariat, Office of the Premier, Government of BC

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #1 - Education

• The international CEECD Encyclopaedia on Early Childhood Development - Claire Gascon Giard – Université de Montréal; Richard Tremblay – Université de Montréal; Ray de V Peters – Queen’s University; Michel Boivin – Laval University

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #1(a) - Methods

• Systematic Reviews and Information Retrieval: Planning and Implementing a Database Search: Anne Wade – Concordia University

12:30 – 14:00

Symposium Session #1(a) - Methods

• Symposium: Complexities in Meta-analysis - Betsy Becker – Florida State University; Ariel M. Aloe - Florida State; University ; Soyeon Ahn - Michigan State University; Ingram Olkin - Florida State University; Ying Zhang - Florida State University; Haiyan Wu - Florida State University; Rae-Seon Kim - Florida State University

Chair - Eric Chan – Canadian Council on Learning

12:30 – 14:00

Symposium Session #1(a) - Education

• Reviews on Supporting Literacy Development in Young Children - Gina Harrison – University of Victoria; Monique Sénéchal - Carleton University

Chair - Linda Siegel - University of British Columbia

14:00 – 14:30

Nutrition Break / Poster Session

14:30 – 16:00

Symposium Session #1 - Evidence

• Sustainable Programs: In Search of the Elusive - Ronnie Detrich; Randy Keyworth and Jack States – The Wing Institute

Chair - Stephanie Oldford – Canadian Council on Learning

14:30 – 16:00

Symposium Session #1(b)- Education

• Reviews of Language Difficulties in Special Populations - Esther Geva, University of Toronto; François Bergeron – Laval University;  Zohreh Yaghoub Zadeh – Canadian Council on Learning

Chair - Nancy Cohen – Director of Research Hincks-Dellcrest Centre/Institute

14:30 – 16:00

Symposium Session #1(b) - Methods

• Breadth of review questions: theoretical and practical considerations - David Gough and Mark Newman, EPPI-Centre

Chair - Sonia Guerriero – Canadian Council on Learning

14:30 – 16:00

Symposium Session #1 – Social Welfare

• Developing the process of systematic mapping of the social welfare literature - Janet Clapton and Deborah Rutter – Social Care Institute for Excellence

Chair - Isabelle Eaton – Canadian Council on Learning

14:30 – 16:00

Workshop Session #1(b) Methods

• Finding Grey Literature: Issues, Challenges and Knowledge-Exchange - Will Durland – Canadian Council on Learning; Dean Giustini – University of British Columbia; Terri Thompson – Canadian Council on Learning

14:30 – 16:00

Training Session #1(b)

• Effect Size Calculations / (Introduction) - Robert Bernard and Philip Abrami – Concordia University

16:00 – 16:30

Break

16:30 -18:00

Education Coordinating Group

16:30 -18:00

Trial Search Coordinators

16:30 -18:00

Social Welfare Editorial Board – Closed Meeting

16:30 -18:00

User’s Group

18:30 - 19:30

Plenary Session

• Presentation of the 2008 Mosteller Award

Jerry Lee Lecture

• Evidence for evidence-based practice: Research and reality in juvenile justice - Mark Lipsey - Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies

19:30 - 21:30

Reception

7:00 – 7:45

Breakfast

8:00 – 9:30

Plenary Session

• Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decision-Making in Education- Ben Levin - Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.

9:30 – 10:00

Nutrition Break / Poster Session

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #2 - Evidence

• Evidence-based Educational Policy: Integrating Realistic and Responsive Evaluation - Dirk Hillebrandt - University of  Kiel
  
  
• Knowledge mobilization and community-based research - Annie Kidder, Gay Stephenson, Kathryn Blackett and Michelle Goldberg – People for Education

Discussant - Dr. Jeremy Rayner, Head, Department of Political Science and Acting Head, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #2 - Crime and Justice

• The economic case for and against prison: a review of effectiveness evidence and economic analysis - Kevin Marsh - The Matrix Knowledge Group Epworth House
  
  
• A systematic review of selected interventions to reduce juvenile re-offending - Mark Newman - EPPI- Centre, University of London; Amanda E. Perry – University of York; Carol Vigurs  - EPPI- Centre; University of London; Glyn Hallam –  University of York; Elizabeth P.V. Schertler – University of York; Mathew Johnson - University of York
  
  
• The Enhanced Nurse Family Partnership Program: Improving Best Practices through Rigorously Tested Incremental Experimental Interventions - Lynette Feder – Portland State University; Phyllis Niolon – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dan Whitaker – Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Sarah Chivers – Portland State University; Angela Banks – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Discussant- Wendy Taylor, Executive Director, Cross Government Research, Policy and Practice Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Government of BC

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #2(a) – Education

• Best Practices for Fostering English Literacy – Olusola O. Adesope, Tracy Lavin and Terri Thompson -  Canadian Council on Learning
  
  
• ''Student Success'': Creating a diverse and equally balanced curriculum -  Lauren Segedin - University of Oxford
  
  
• Career Education, Financial Incentives and Access to Post-Secondary Education -Reuben Ford - Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
  
  
• NICE: Improving Education for the Care of the Elderly - Anthony Lombardo and Lynn McDonald – University of Toronto

Discussant - Lynn Holt, Director, Cross Government Research, Policy and Practice Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Labour and Citizens Services

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #2 – Methods

• Effect Size Invariance Across Measures: SMD and Correlation Effect Sizes - William R. (Bill) Nugent – The University of Tennessee Knoxville
  
  
• Be Specific! How Item Specificity can Influence Self-Reported Levels of Political Interest - Betsy Becker and Ray Block – Florida State University
  
  
• Methods for synthesizing regression results - Therese Pigott, Meng-Jia Wu and Ryan Williams - Loyola University Chicago

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #2 – Social Welfare

• Implications of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health for systematic reviews Vivian Robinson - University of Ottawa; Peter Tugwell - University of Ottawa; Mike Kelly - National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK; Josiane Bonnefoy - Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile; Mark Petticrew - University of Ottawa; Erin Morris - University of Ottawa; Marion Doull - University of Ottawa; Emma Stewart - National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK
  
  
• What works, what matters and what counts: preliminary work on cost effectiveness in social care with children - Madeleine Stevens - University of London; Helen Roberts -  University of London; Alan Shiell – University of Calgary
  
  
• The Cochrance Public Health Review – New opportunities for collaboration - Jodie Doyle - Cochrane PH Review Group; Laurie Anderson - University of Washington; Elizabeth Waters -  The University of Melbourne; Julia Littell - Bryn Mawr College

Discussant - Silvia Vilches, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia

10:00 – 11:30

Training Session #2(a)

• Modeling I: Fixed Effects and Homogeneity Estimation - Jeff Valentine – University of Louisville

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #2 - Evidence

• Decision making in local governments and the use of systematic reviews - Sten Anttila and Mads Hog - Socialstyrelsen

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #2a - Methods

• A level playing field: how to adjust cost estimates from multiple studies to a common currency and …  - Ian Shemilt -  University of East Anglia; Kevin Marsh - University of East Anglia; David McDaid -London School of Economics

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #2b - Methods

• Developing a protocol for qualitative meta-synthesis within Campbell Systematic Reviews: Expanding… -  Michael Saini - University of Toronto; Aron Shlonsky - University of Toronto

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #2(c) - Methods

• EPPI-Reviewer Clinic – David Gough - EPPI Centre - University of London

12:30 – 14:00

Paper Session #2(b) - Education

• Organizing methods for Higher Education funding policy - Iain Snee - University of British Columbia
  
  
• The Challenges of Assessing Inclusive Post-secondary Education - Judith Mosoff  - The University of British Columbia; Joe Greenholtz - The University of British Columbia; Tamara Hurtado - The University of British Columbia
  
  
• Systematic Review of Research on Secondary Inclusive Education - Morgen Alwell - Appalachian State University;  Brian Cobb -  Colorado State University
  
  
• Social Skills Training for Learning Disabled School-aged Children - Jamie B. Schwartz, Lucy Funderburk and Chad Nye - University of Central Florida

12:30 – 14:00

Training Session #2(b)

• Effect Size Calculations / (Advanced) - Meng-Jia Wu – Loyola University Chicago

14:00 – 14:30

Nutrition Break / Poster Session

14:30 – 16:00

Plenary Session

• Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decision-Making in Social Welfare  -  Jean-Pierre Voyer - Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation

16:00 – 16:30

Break

16:30-18:00

Social Welfare Coordinating Group

16:30-18:00

Methods Coordinating Group

16:30-18:00

Crime and Justice Coordinating Group

7:00 – 7:45

Breakfast

8:00 – 9:30

Plenary Session

• Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decisions in Education in Switzerland - Stefan Wolter - Managing Director of the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education

9:30 – 10:00

Nutrition Break / Poster Session

10:00 – 11:30

Training Session #3(a)

• Writing User Abstracts for Campbell Reviews - Merete Konnerup and Arild Bjorndal – Nordic Campbell Centre

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #3 - Evidence

• Evidence, Involvement and Accountability: Exploring service user participation in the systematic review - Sarah Carr and Esther Coren - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  
  
• NCDDR Model: Developing Evidence-Based Resources within the Disability Research Community - Joann Starks and John D. Westbrook, SEDL/Disability Research to Practice
  
  
• Scottish Government and UK Economic and Social Research Council Collaboration - Gill Clark – The Scottish Government
  
  
• A Researcher-Stakeholder Partnership for a Systematic Review - Denise Thomson –University of Alberta

Discussant - Dr. Jeremy Rayner, Head, Department of Political Science and Acting Head, Dept of Justice Studies, University of Regina

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #3 - Education

• Argumentation in Education: A Comprehensive Review - John C. Nesbit – Simon Fraser University; Hui Niu - Canadian Council on Learning; Liujing Mao – Simon Fraser University
  
  
• Instructional Interventions Affecting Critical Thinking Skills and Dispositions: A Stage One Meta-Analysis - Philip C. Abrami , Robert M. Bernard, Evgueni Borokhovski, Anne C. Wade, Michael A. Surkes, Rana Tamim and Dai Zhang – Concordia University
  
  
• Comparing Distance Education Instructional Treatments: A Meta-Analysis of DE vs. DE Studies - Robert M. Bernard, Philip C. Abrami, Evgueni Borokhovski, Anne C. Wade, Michael A. Surkes, and Edward C. Bethel – Concordia University
  
  
• Ubiquitous Computing in K-12 Classrooms: A Systematic Review -Edward C. Bethel, Robert M. Bernard, Philip C. Abrami and Anne C. Wade – Concordia University

10:00 – 11:30

Workshop Session #3(a)- Methods

• Calculating Effect Size Estimates for Single-Subject Experimental Designs - Oliver Wendt – Purdue University; S. Natasha Beretvas, The University of Texas at Austin; Ralf W. Schlosser – Northeastern University

10:00 – 11:30

Workshop Session #3(b) - Methods

• Communities that Care – Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice - Rob Smith and Christine Buttkus – BC Government

10:00 – 11:30

Paper Session #3 - Social Welfare

• Experience trumps knowledge - Ron Hansen – The University of Western Ontario
  
  
• Recovery education in mental health: the hard work! - Kathryn Storey – The  University of Western Ontario
  
  
• Meaning of Aboriginal Epistemology in Education - Marjorie  Dressyman-Lavallee and Wilda Swampy – University of Alberta

Discussant - Dawn Nickel, Director, Cross Government Research, Policy and Practice Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services

10:00 – 11:30

Symposium Session #3(a) - Education

• Risk Factors of Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Three Meta Analyses - Zohreh Zaghoub Zadeh – Canadian Council on Learning; Eric Chan - Canadian Council on Learning; Fataneh Farnia - Hincks-Dellcrest Centre/Institute

Chair - Charles Ungerleider – Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization, Canadian Council on Learning

10:00 – 11:30

Workshop Session – Methods #3(c)

• Economics Methods Clinics  - Ian Shemilt and Kevin Marsh – University of East Anglia

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #3 - Evidence

• The Impact of a Systematic Review: What's a Reasonable Expectation? - Robert C. Mullen - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #3 - Crime and Justice

• What works for young offenders and how do we communicate the results? - Kerstin Söderholm Carpelan - National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden; Marie Nyström – National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden; Lars Brännström – National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden; Anna-Karin Andershed - University of Örebro

12:30 – 14:00

Symposium Session #3(b) - Education

• The use of research-based information in large-scale governmental initiatives in education - Michel Janosz - Université de Montréal; Jean L Belanger - Université du Québec à Montréal; Jonathan Lévesque - Université de Montréal; Philip C. Abrami - Concordia University; Christian Dagenais - Université de Montréal; Robert Bernard – Concordia University; Larysa Lysenco – Concordia University; Frederic Nault-Brière - Université de Montréal; Alexandre Chabot - Université de Montréal; Nathalie Awad - Université de Montréal

Chair - Charles Ungerleider – Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization, Canadian Council on Learning

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #3(d) - Methods

• Using Web-based Systematic Reviews for More Effective Clinical Research - Peter O’Blenis - TrialStat Corporation

12:30 – 14:00

Workshop Session #3 - Social Welfare

• Staff training as a tool to improve the quality of elder care: A workshop - Britt Marie Hellner, Gunilla Fahlström, Elizabeth Åhsberg and Katrin Östman – Socialstyrelsen

12:30 – 14:00

Training Session #3(b)

• Modeling II: Radom and Mixed Effects - Betsy Becker  

14:00 – 14:30

Nutrition Break / Poster Session

14:30 – 16:00

Plenary Session

• Insight on Insite (North America's first legal supervised injection site) – Research in Context for Vancouver’s Downtown East Side - Sarah Evans - Acting Manager, HIV-AIDS and Harm Reduction Programs, Vancouver Community
  
  
• Invitation to the 9th Annual International Campbell Collaboration Colloquium
  
  
• Closing Remarks

16:00 – 16:30

Break

16:30 – 18:00

Campbell Collaboration Business Meeting