Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research
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Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research
Oxford University Press, c2011
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Contents of Works
- The challenge for educational research
- The importance of theory
- Designing research to address causal questions
- Past approaches to answering causal questions in education
- Investigator-designed randomized experiments
- Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments
- Statistical power and sample size
- Experimental rech when participants are clustered within intact groups
- Using natural experiments to provide "arguably exogenous" treatment variability
- Estimating causal effects using a Regression-Discontinuity approach
- Introducing instrumental-variables estimation
- Using IVE to recover the treatment effect in a Quasi-Experiment
- Dealing with bias in treatment effects estimated from nonexperimental data
- Methodological lessons from the long quest
- Substantive lessons and new questions