Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs

By Matthew Morton, Paul Montgomery. 2011

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External Validity: From Do-Calculus to Transportability Across Populations (2014, background): “Campbell and Stanley (1963), page 5, take a slightly broader view: ““External validity” asks the question of generalizability: to what populations, settings, treatment variables, and measurement variables can this effect be generalized?””
A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Bullying Prevention Programs' Effects on Bystander Intervention Behavior (2012, background): “On the other hand, the sample of studies we synthesized contained only those that used a treatment and control group, and these research designs constitute the most efficient measure of treatment effect (Shadish et al., 2002).”
The Prosocial Classroom: Teacher Social and Emotional Competence in Relation to Student and Classroom Outcomes (2009, unknown): “Randomized controlled studies pose numerous challenges in educational settings, including sampling variability, number and choice of units of analysis, treatment-related attrition, and heterogeneity of implementation quality (Campbell & Stanley, 1966).”
Conceptual and methodological issues in studying school leadership effects as a reciprocal process (2011, unknown): “For these reasons, it is best to consider results from non-experimental, cross-lagged panel designs as preliminary rather than definitive (Campbell & Stanley, 1966).”
How to do a good systematic review of effects in international development: a tool kit (2012, methodology): “2002); methods commonly used to identify causation among self-selected groups in international development include instrumental variables (IVs), difference-indifferences (DIDs), propensity score matching (PSM) (Ravallion 2008) and, to a lesser extent, interrupted time series (ITS) (Shadish et al. 20”
Transportability across studies: A formal approach (2011, background): “Fleming and DeMets (1996) leave the impression that correlation fails to serve surrogacy only when it is weak or moderate, while Baker and Kramer (2003) conclude that correlation fails because it is hard, in practice, to accurately estimate slopes and intercepts.”
A Review of Meta-Analyses in Education (2012, result): “Similar to primary studies (Bracht & Glass, 1968; Campbell & Stanley, 1976; Cook & Campbell, 1979), the validity of a meta-analysis relies upon the procedures that reviewers implement (Cooper, 1982, 2009; DeCoster, 2004; Valentine et al., 2010), which requires researchers’ earnest efforts in…”
Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comprehensive Review (2015, unknown): “Collaborative Coaching Systematic consultation across years to promote achievement of IEP goals Ruble, Dalrymple, & McGrew (2010) Insufficient evidence Cooperative Learning Groups Academic learning tasks organized around joint activities and goals Dugan et al . (1995) Insufficient evidence”
Best Practices in Data Collection and Preparation: Recommendations for Reviewers, Editors, and Authors (2019, background): “Another necessary condition for drawing conclusions about causal relations is the ability to rule out alternative explanations for the presumed causal effect (Shadish et al., 2002).”
Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios (2012, unknown): “…(e.g., to understand user behaviour and performance) , participative (e.g., to understand user behaviour, performance, thoughts, and experience) Hilbert and Redmiles [34] Quantitative (e.g., types validity: conclusion (types I & II errors), construct, external/internal, ecological) ,…”
A Review of Attributional Retraining Treatments: Fostering Engagement and Persistence in Vulnerable College Students (2009, methodology): “A pre-post control design is important for assessing the process variables of any treatment intervention wherein both the treatment and the control group are assessed on the dependent variables prior to and following the experimental manipulation (Campbell and Stanley, 1963).”
Workplace spirituality, meditation, and work performance (2012, methodology): “Study 2 is a quasi-experimental study – a pretest–posttest with nonequivalent comparison groups design (Campbell and Stanley 1963).”
Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: : Implications for theory and research (2015, background): “Data certification and internal accounting checks insure high degrees of reliability and validity in the data (Shadish et al., 2002).”