Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference Author: William R. Shadish | Language: English | ISBN:
0395615569 | Format: EPUB
Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference Description
This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation:
- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 2 edition (January 2, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0395615569
- ISBN-13: 978-0395615560
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I want to emphasize something that I think explains the very mixed reviews of this book--that it's NOT an introduction to experimental research. This book is the successor to Campbell and Stanley's Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research and Cook and Campbell's Quasi-Experimentation, both pathbreaking works in this field. It is by far the most sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of the experimental approach to social research, and explores in depth some issues (such as causation) that other books only touch on. Donald Campbell was the major figure in the development of this approach, and this book continues the tradition he began, significantly expanding and revising his arguments. I can understand the frustration of students who are assigned this book in an introductory course, but every researcher who plans on actually doing experimental research in the social sciences (not psychology) needs this book--particularly the last chapter, "A Critical Assessment of Our Assumptions."
By Joseph A. Maxwell
I am a doctoral student in public health and recommend this book to my fellow doctoral students out there. It is a thorough and comprehensive text on research methods. I have gone through quite a few texts with similar titles and this stands out as the best.
By V. Vasireddy
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