Methods matter : [manuscript] : improving causal inference in educational and social science research /
Murnane, Richard J.
Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research / [manuscript] : Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xv, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199753864 (hardback) : 34.76 0199753865 (hardback)
2010007441
GBB074994 bnb
015583144 Uk
Education--Research--Methodology.
Quantitative research.
LB1028 / .M86 2011
370.7/2
Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research / [manuscript] : Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xv, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199753864 (hardback) : 34.76 0199753865 (hardback)
2010007441
GBB074994 bnb
015583144 Uk
Education--Research--Methodology.
Quantitative research.
LB1028 / .M86 2011
370.7/2