The challenge for educational research
The importance of theory
Designing research to address causal questions
Investigator-designed randomized experiments
Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments
Statistical power and sample size
Experimental research when participants are clustered within intact groups
Using natural experiments to provide "arguably exogenous" treatment variability
Estimating causal effects using a regression-discontinuity approach
Introducing instrumental-variables estimation
Using IVE to recover the treatment effect in a quasi-experiment
Dealing with bias in treatment effects estimated from nonexperimental data
Methodological lessons from the long quest
Substantive lessons and new questions.
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Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational research by Richard J. Murnane. ISBN 9780199753864. Published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
