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Wong, Manyee; Cook, Thomas D.; Steiner, Peter M. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Some form of a short interrupted time series (ITS) is often used to evaluate state and national programs. An ITS design with a single treatment group assumes that the pretest functional form can be validly estimated and extrapolated into the postintervention period where it provides a valid counterfactual. This assumption is problematic. Ambiguous…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Time, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Cook, Thomas D.; Shadish, William R.; Wong, Vivian C. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
This paper analyzes 12 recent within-study comparisons contrasting causal estimates from a randomized experiment with those from an observational study sharing the same treatment group. The aim is to test whether different causal estimates result when a counterfactual group is formed, either with or without random assignment, and when statistical…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Experiments, Pretests Posttests, Job Training