Quasi-Experimentation: A Guide to Design and Analysis

✍ Scribed by Charles S. Reichardt

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Series: Methodology in the Social Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Featuring engaging examples from diverse disciplines, this book explains how to use modern approaches to quasi-experimentation to derive credible estimates of treatment effects under the demanding constraints of field settings. Foremost expert Charles S. Reichardt provides an in-depth examination of the design and statistical analysis of pretest–posttest, nonequivalent groups, regression discontinuity, and interrupted time-series designs. He details their relative strengths and weaknesses and offers practical advice about their use. Comparing quasi-experiments to randomized experiments, Reichardt discusses when and why the former might be a better choice than the latter in the face of the contingencies that are likely to arise in practice. Modern methods for elaborating a research design to remove bias from estimates of treatment effects are described, as are tactics for dealing with missing data and noncompliance with treatment assignment. Throughout, mathematical equations are translated into words to enhance accessibility. Adding to its discussion of prototypical quasi-experiments, the book also provides a complete typology of quasi-experimental design options to help the reader craft the best research design to fit the circumstances of a given study.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Series Editor’s Note
Preface
Contents
1 · Introduction
2 · Cause and Effect
3 · Threats to Validity
4 · Randomized Experiments
5 · One-Group Posttest‑Only Designs
6 · Pretest–Posttest Designs
7 · Nonequivalent Group Designs
8 · Regression Discontinuity Designs
9 · Interrupted Time‑Series Designs
10 · A Typology of Comparisons
11 · Methods of Design Elaboration
12 · Unfocused Design Elaboration and Pattern Matching
13 · Principles of Design and Analysis for Estimating Effects
Appendix: The Problems of Overdetermination and Preemption
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author