Methods matter
Subtitle: improving causal inference in educational and social science research
By: Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett
Contributors: Willett, John B.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780199753864
Subjects: Quantitative research; Methodology; Education; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenge for educational research; title: The importance of theory; title: Designing research to address causal questions; title: Investigator-designed randomized experiments; title: Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments; title: Statistical power and sample size; title: Experimental research when participants are clustered within intact groups; title: Using natural experiments to provide "arguably exogenous" treatment variability; title: Estimating causal effects using a regression-discontinuity approach; 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 nonexperimental data; title: Methodological lessons from the long quest; title: Substantive lessons and new questions.