Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research /

• Main Author: Murnane, Richard J. (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Willett, John B. (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Εκπαίδευση > Έρευνα > Μεθοδολογία.; Ποσοτική έρευνα

Table of Contents:

• The challenge for educational research
• The importance of theory
• Designing research to address causal questions
• Investigator-designed randomized experiments
• Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments
• Statistical power and sample size
• Experimental research 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.