| Description |
xxi, 623 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Experiments and generalized causal inference -- Statistical conclusion validity and internal validity -- Construct validity and external validity -- Quasi-experimental designs that either lack a control group or lack pretest observations on the outcome -- Quasi-experimental designs that use both control groups and pretests -- Quasi-experiments: interrupted time-series designs -- Regression discontinuity designs -- Randomized experiments: rationale, designs, and conditions conducive to doing them -- Practical problems 1: Ethics, participant recruitment, and random assignment -- Practical problems 2: Treatment implementation and attrition -- Generalized causal inference: a grounded theory -- Generalized causal inference: methods for single studies -- Generalized causal inference: methods for multiple studies -- A critical assessment of our assumptions |
| Summary |
This successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation: Theoretical matters: Experimentation, causation, and validity ; Quasi-experimental design: Regression discontinuity designs, interrupted time series designs, quasi-experimental designs that use both pretests and control groups, and other designs ; Randomized experiments: Logic and design issues, and practical problems involving ethics, recruitment, assignment, treatment implementation, and attrition ; Generalized causal inference: A grounded theory of generalized causal inference, along with methods for implementing that theory in single and multiple studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-591) and indexes |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Analysis of variance.
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Experimental design.
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Causation -- Experiments.
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Research Design.
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Research -- education.
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| Author |
Cook, Thomas D., author
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Campbell, Donald T. (Donald Thomas), 1916-1996, author
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| LC no. |
2001131551 |
| ISBN |
9780395615560 (paperback) |
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9780395307878 (hardback) |
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