Validity & social experimentation. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Leonard Bickman, editor.
• Other Names: Bickman, Leonard, 1941-; Campbell, Donald T (Donald Thomas)
• Contents: Pt. 1. Validity issues. ch. 1. Towards a practical theory of external validity / Thomas D. Cook. ch. 2. Validity applied to meta-analyses and research syntheses / Paul Wortman, Elvira Elek-Fisk, Lanette Raymond. ch. 3. Discriminative validity / Norman Miller, William C. Pedersen, Vicki E. Pollock. ch. 4. Effect sizes in behavioral and biomedical research : estimation and interpretation / Bob Rosenthal. ch. 5. Statistical conclusion validity for intervention research : a significant problem / Mark Lipsey. ch. 6. Realism, validity, and the experimenting society / Mel Mark -- pt. 2. Social experiments. ch. 7. The honestly experimenting society : sites and other entities as the unit of allocation and analysis / Bob Boruch and Ellen Foley. ch. 8. Toward the dream of the experimenting society / Robert G. St. Pierre and Michael J. Puma. ch. 9. Rival explanations as an alternative to reforms as experiments / Robert K. Yin. ch. 10. Donald T. Campbell's contributions to practical in the trenches program evaluation / Burt Perrin. ch. 11. The experimenting society in a political world / Carol H. Weiss. ØÖ à.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 300/.7/2; 301/.07/24; 301.0724; Sociology -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Methodology; Meta-analysis; Evaluation research (Social action programs); Experimental design; Evaluation research (Social action programs); Experimental design; Meta-analysis; Social sciences -- Methodology; Sociology -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452251936; 1452251932
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