Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The first of two volumes explaining and expanding techniques developed by American social scientist Campbell (1916-96). Colleagues, students, and others discuss such topics as applying validity to meta- analysis and research synthesis, discriminative validity, the dream of the experimenting society, rival explanations as an alternative to reforms as experiments, and the experimenting society in a political world. The second volume focuses on measurement and design.
Synopsis
Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of validity, research design and social experimentation in this first of two volumes inspired by the work of Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. Each chapter is designed to offer readers insight into such issues as validity applied to meta-analysis, subject selection problems in randomized experiments, time-series designs and quasi-experiments, and the logic of ruling out rival hypotheses. Anyone engaged in social research will find this book a thought-provoking and inspiring read for their work.