Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

摘要: 1. Experiments and Generalized Causal Inference 2. Statistical Conclusion Validity Internal 3. Construct External 4. Quasi-Experimental Designs That Either Lack a Control Group or Pretest Observations on the Outcome 5. Use Both Groups Pretests 6. Quasi-Experimentation: Interrupted Time Series 7. Regression Discontinuity 8. Randomized Experiments: Rationale, Designs, Conditions Conducive to Doing Them 9. Practical Problems 1: Ethics, Participant Recruitment, Random Assignment 10. 2: Treatment Implementation Attrition 11. Inference: A Grounded Theory 12. Methods for Single Studies 13. Multiple 14. Critical Assessment of Our Assumptions