Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for...

Notes: Sumario: Experiments and Generalized Causal Inference.- Statistical Conclusion Validity and Internal Validity.- Construct Validity and External Validity.- Quasi-Experimental Designs That Either Lack a Control Group or Lack Pretest Observations on the Outcome.- Quasi-Experimental Designs That Use Both Control Groups and Pretests.- Quasi-Experimentation: Interrupted Time Series Designs.- Regression Discontinuity Designs.- Randomized Experiments: Rationale, Designs, and Conditions Conducive to Doing Them.- Practical Problems: Ethics, Participant Recruitment, and Random Assignment.- Practical Problems: Treatment Implementation and Attrition.- Generalized Causal Inference: A Grounded Theory.- Generalized Causal Inference: Methods for Single Studies.- Generalized Causal Inference: Methods for Multiple Studies.- A Critical Assessment of Our Assumptions.