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Testing the Efficacy of Educational Interventions on Matched Student Samples: A Primer for Propensity Score Matching in R

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Nicholas D. Evans; Perla C. Perez; Osvaldo F. Morera – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2025

In many educational intervention programs, it is not possible to randomly assign students to an experimental and control condition. For example, in our research we wanted to compare students who were enrolled in a biomedical pathway program to students who were not in such a program. However, students select their academic pathway program and a…

Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Science Education, Educational Research