TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Murnane,Richard J.
AU  - Willett,John B.
TI  - Methods matter: improving causal inference in educational and social science research 
SN  - 9780199753864 (hardback) :
AV  - LB1028 .M86 2011
U1  - 370.7/2 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Education
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Quantitative research
N1  - 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
ER  -