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Validity and Social Experimentation
Donald Campbell's Legacy

Edited by:

Leonard Bickman - Vanderbilt University, USA and Florida International University, USA

January 2000 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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The 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 their work.

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PART ONE: VALIDITY ISSUES

Thomas D Cook

Towards a Practical Theory of External Validity

Paul Wortman, Elvira Elek-Fisk and Lanette Raymond

Validity Applied to Meta-Analyses and Research Syntheses

Norman Miller, William C Pedersen and Vicki E Pollock

Discriminative Validity

Mark Lipsey

Statistical Conclusion Validity for Intervention Research

A Significant (p 05) Problem

Robert Rosenthal

Effect Sizes in Behavioral and Biomedical Research

Estimation and Interpretatio

Melvin Mark

Realism, Validity and the Experimenting Society

PART TWO: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS

Robert G St Pierre and Michael J Puma

Toward the Dream of the Experimenting Society

Robert Boruch and Ellen Foley

The Honestly Experimenting Society

Sites and Other Entities as the Unit of Allocation and Analysis

Robert K Yin

Rival Explanations as an Alternative to Reforms as 'Experiments'

Burt Perrin

Donald T Campbell's Contributions to Practical 'In the Trenches' Program Evaluation

Carol H Weiss

The Experimenting Society in a Political World

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