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Nicole Bohme Carnegie; Masataka Harada; Jennifer L. Hill – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
A major obstacle to developing evidenced-based policy is the difficulty of implementing randomized experiments to answer all causal questions of interest. When using a nonexperimental study, it is critical to assess how much the results could be affected by unmeasured confounding. We present a set of graphical and numeric tools to explore the…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Simulation, Evidence Based Practice, Barriers
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Braverman, Marc T. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Sound evaluation planning requires numerous decisions about how constructs in a program theory will be translated into measures and instruments that produce evaluation data. This article, the first in a dialogue exchange, examines how decisions about measurement are (and should be) made, especially in the context of small-scale local program…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Methods Research, Research Methodology, Research Design