Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research (Hardcover)

1. The Challenge for Educational Research
2. The Importance of Theory
3. Designing Research to Address Causal Questions
4. Investigator-Designed Randomized Experiments
5. Challenges in Designing, Implementing, and Learning from Randomized Experiments
6. Statistical Power and Sample Size
7. Experimental Research When Participants Are Clustered Within Intact Groups
8. Using Natural Experiments to Provide "Arguably Exogenous" Treatment Variability
9. Estimating Causal Effects Using a Regression-Discontinuity Approach
10. Introducing Instrumental-Variables Estimation
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