External Validity and Evaluation Research

作者: Ilene N. Bernstein , George W. Bohrnstedt , Edgar F. Borgatta

DOI: 10.1177/004912417500400106

关键词: Research methodologyDifferential (mechanical device)PsychologySelection (genetic algorithm)External validitySituational ethicsGeneralizability theoryCognitive psychologyResearch evaluationManagement scienceSociological researchSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Sociology and Political Science

摘要: This paper delimits and explicates threats to external validity particularly problematic in evaluation research. Five categories of factors are discussed: selection effects, measurement confounded treatment situational effects due differential mortality. The focuses on pointing up specific ways which each the threaten generalizability possible solutions methodological problems presented.

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