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Validity and Social Experimentation : Donald Campbell's Legacy.

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 insigh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bickman, Leonard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.
Colección:Social Research Methods.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Trials
  • Chapter 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.