RESEARCH REPORT CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT INSTITUTE EVALUATION: TRAINING IMPACT ON HEARING PRACTICE
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2016
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National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Abstract
The study described in this report further expands CANI’s training evaluation approach to examine
whether judges’ participation in the Institute positively impacts their actual on-the-bench judicial
practice. Using a quasi-experimental design, the extent to which participation in CANI impacts
participants’ initial or preliminary protective hearing (PPH) practice was assessed. Judges provided
the researchers with a sample of their pre-CANI PPHs which were then coded, analyzed, and
compared to a sample of the same judges’ post-CANI PPHs. PPH practice was selected as the focus
for the evaluation not only because CANI includes a major focus on the components of “best hearing
practice” and the role of the judge in conducting effective hearings, but also because the PPH is a
critical stage in the child abuse and neglect case process.
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judges, training evaluation, dependency hearing, courts, juvenile court
Citation
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (2016). RESEARCH REPORT CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT INSTITUTE EVALUATION: TRAINING IMPACT ON HEARING PRACTICE. Reno, NV: Author.