An Assessment of Juvenile Drug Courts’ Knowledge of Evidence‐Based Practices, Data Collection, and the Use of AA/NA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The use of evidence‐based practices ( EBP s) has become a core component of juvenile drug courts ( JDC s). This research, using a sample of JDC s listed with the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, tests two current assumptions in the field: 1) many JDC s do not use or are unaware of their use of EBP s and 2) JDC s tend to overuse sober support groups (e.g., AA / NA ), which are thought to be inappropriate for youth. Results suggest that nearly all JDC s, in the sample, reported using EBP s; however, only about a quarter of them collected treatment data and knew the outcomes of the data. Also, only about half of the JDC s use sober support groups (predominantly AA / NA ), and nearly all of the sober support groups were tailored toward youth. Overall, these findings suggest that the current assumptions in the field do not accurately reflect the practices reported by these JDC s. Implications are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".