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Stephen Gorard; Beng H. See; Nadia Siddiqui – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case describes a current evaluation of an educational intervention to help disadvantaged children catch up in literacy at around the time they transfer to their senior school. The evaluation is based on a randomised controlled trial design, which the case explains is the most appropriate for testing or establishing a causal claim. The case…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Intervention, Observation
Imbens, Guido W.; Rubin, Donald B. – Cambridge University Press, 2015
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This book starts with the notion of potential outcomes, each corresponding…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Social Sciences