Validity & social experimentation : Donald Campbell's legay. Volume 1 / Leonard Bickman, editor.

Format:

Book

Series:

Social research methods

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Evaluation research (Social action programs).

Experimental design.

Campbell, Donald T. (Donald Thomas), 1916-1996.

Campbell, Donald T.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Validity and social experimentation

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, Incorporated, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of validity, research design and social experimentation in this first of two volumes inspired by the work of Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. Each chapter is designed to offer readers insight into such issues as validity applied to meta-analysis, subject selection problems in randomized experiments, time-series designs and quasi-experiments, and the logic of ruling out rival hypotheses. Anyone engaged in social research will find this book a thought-provoking and inspiring read for

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I - Validity Issues; Chapter 1 - Toward a Practical Theory of External Validity; Chapter 2 - Validity Applied to Meta-Analysis and Research Synthesis; Chapter 3 - Discriminative Validity; Chapter 4 - Statistical Conclusion Validity for Intervention Research: A Significant (p <.05) Problem; Chapter 5 - Effect Sizes in Behavioral and Biomedical Research: Estimation and Interpretation; Chapter 6 - Realism,Validity, and the Experimenting Society; PART II - Social Experiments; Chapter 7 - Toward the Dream of the Experimenting Society

Chapter 8 - The Honestly Experimental Society: Sites and Other Entities as the Units of Allocation and Analysis in Randomized TrialsChapter 9 - Rival Explanations as an Alternative to Reforms as ""Experiments""; Chapter 10 - Donald T. Campbell and the Art of Practical ""In-the-Trenches"" Program Evaluation; Chapter 11 - The Experimenting Society in a Political World; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781452251936

1452251932

OCLC:

821725094