“…Particularly, the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comes with many challenges, including: (a) ethical issues, such as the need to serve all population members at risk which prevents the use of a counterfactual in a program's evaluation; (b) timing issues, such as the urgency to act quickly and flexibly to deliver—and measure the impact of—an intervention response to an immediate risk or identified time‐sensitive programmatic need, thus, there is often not sufficient time to plan and execute a RCT or other rigorous design; (c) financial and/or technical resources, to implement the often resource‐intensive RCT; and (d) generalizability issues, such as implementing a rigorous impact evaluation that will yield results that cannot be extended beyond the experimental study context. Issues such as these have led to a call across the education intervention, human services programming, and international development literature to continue examining the suitability of alternative research designs for investigating the impact of interventions (e.g., Deterding & Solmeyer, ; Peck & Goldstein, ; Wynn, Dutta, & Nelson, ).…”