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Direct linkPeter Schochet – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Random encouragement designs are randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that test interventions aimed at increasing participation in a program or activity whose take up is not universal. In these RCTs, instead of randomizing individuals or clusters directly into treatment and control groups to participate in a program or activity, the randomization…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Computation, Causal Models, Research Design
Thomas Cook; Mansi Wadhwa; Jingwen Zheng – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Context: A perennial problem in applied statistics is the inability to justify strong claims about cause-and-effect relationships without full knowledge of the mechanism determining selection into treatment. Few research designs other than the well-implemented random assignment study meet this requirement. Researchers have proposed partial…
Descriptors: Observation, Research Design, Causal Models, Computation
Download full textTang, Yang; Cook, Thomas D.; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Regression discontinuity design (RD) has been widely used to produce reliable causal estimates. Researchers have validated the accuracy of RD design using within study comparisons (Cook, Shadish & Wong, 2008; Cook & Steiner, 2010; Shadish et al, 2011). Within study comparisons examines the validity of a quasi-experiment by comparing its…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Statistical Bias, Accuracy, Regression (Statistics)
Karabatsos, George; Walker, Stephen G. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
The regression discontinuity (RD) design (Thistlewaite & Campbell, 1960; Cook, 2008) provides a framework to identify and estimate causal effects from a non-randomized design. Each subject of a RD design is assigned to the treatment (versus assignment to a non-treatment) whenever her/his observed value of the assignment variable equals or…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Bayesian Statistics, Nonparametric Statistics, Causal Models
Kelcey, Ben; Phelps, Geoffrey; Jones, Nathan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Teacher professional development (PD) is seen as critical to improving the quality of US schools (National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 1997). PD is increasingly viewed as one of the primary levers for improving teaching quality and ultimately student achievement (Correnti, 2007). One factor that is driving interest in PD is…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Research
Reardon, Sean F.; Raudenbush, Stephen W. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the assumptions that must be met if this--multiple site, multiple mediator--strategy, hereafter referred to as "MSMM," is to identify the average causal effects (ATE) in the populations of interest. The authors' investigation of the assumptions of the multiple-mediator, multiple-site IV model demonstrates…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Science Research, Research Design, Causal Models
