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Tang, 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)
Porter, Kristin E.; Reardon, Sean F.; Unlu, Fatih; Bloom, Howard S.; Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P. – MDRC, 2014
A valuable extension of the single-rating regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a multiple-rating RDD (MRRDD). To date, four main methods have been used to estimate average treatment effects at the multiple treatment frontiers of an MRRDD: the "surface" method, the "frontier" method, the "binding-score" method, and…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Research Design, Quasiexperimental Design, Research Methodology