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" Methods matter : "
Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett
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BL
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688916
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b511105
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| Main Entry
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Murnane, Richard J
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| Title & Author
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Methods matter : : improving causal inference in educational and social science research /\ Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011
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xv, 397 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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0199753865 (hardback)
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: 9780199753864 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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Education-- Research-- Methodology
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Quantitative research
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370.7/2
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LB1028.M86 2011
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Willett, John B
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