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Schochet, Peter Z. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2010
Pretest-posttest experimental designs often are used in randomized control trials (RCTs) in the education field to improve the precision of the estimated treatment effects. For logistic reasons, however, pretest data often are collected after random assignment, so that including them in the analysis could bias the posttest impact estimates. Thus,…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Scores, Intervention, Scientific Methodology