Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference

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Main Author: Shadish, William R.
Other Authors: Cook, Thomas D., Campbell, Donald Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, CA Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2002
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Table of 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