Methods matter
Subtitle: improving causal inference in educational research
By: Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett.
Contributors: Willett, John B.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780199753864
Subjects: Education -- Research -- Methodology; Quantitative research
Table of contents: title: The challenge for educational research; title: The importance of theory; title: Designing research to address causal questions; title: Past approaches to answering causal questions in education; title: Investigator-designed randomized experiments; title: Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments; title: Statistical power and sample size; title: Using natural experiments to provide "arguably exogenous" treatment; title: Estimating causal effects using a regression-continuity approach addin; title: Introducing instrumental variables estimation; title: Using ive to recover the treatment effect in a quasi-experiment; title: Dealing with bias in treatment effects estimated from non-experimental data; title: Substantive lessons from high-quality evaluations of educational interventions.