The leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of validity, research design and social experimentation in this first of two volumes inspired by the work of Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. Each chapter is designed to offer readers insight into such issues as validity applied to meta-analysis, subject selection problems in randomized experiments, time-series designs and quasi-experiments, and the logic of ruling out rival hypotheses. Anyone engaged in social research will find this book a thought-provoking and inspiring read for their work.
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Focuses on Donald Campbell's contributions to the concept of validity and the more activist side of his thinking, social experimentation.
PART ONE: VALIDITY ISSUES
Towards a Practical Theory of External Validity - Thomas D Cook
Paul Wortman, Elvira Elek-Fisk and Lanette Raymond
Validity Applied to Meta-Analyses and Research Syntheses
Discriminative Validity - Norman Miller, William C Pedersen and Vicki E Pollock
Statistical Conclusion Validity for Intervention Research - Mark Lipsey
A Significant (p 05) Problem
Effect Sizes in Behavioral and Biomedical Research - Robert Rosenthal
Estimation and Interpretatio
Realism, Validity and the Experimenting Society - Melvin Mark
PART TWO: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS
Toward the Dream of the Experimenting Society - Robert G St Pierre and Michael J Puma
The Honestly Experimenting Society - Robert Boruch and Ellen Foley
Sites and Other Entities as the Unit of Allocation and Analysis
Rival Explanations as an Alternative to Reforms as ′Experiments′ - Robert K Yin
Donald T Campbell′s Contributions to Practical ′In the Trenches′ Program Evaluation - Burt Perrin
The Experimenting Society in a Political World - Carol H Weiss
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ISBN
9780761911616
Publisert
2000-03-16
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Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
480 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336
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