research design

Experiments TIG Week: Keith Zvoch on Strong Program Evaluation Design Alternatives

Leave a Comment / Design and Analysis of Experiments / December 15, 2016 December 23, 2016

Keith Zvoch here. I am an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. In this post, I would like to discuss regression discontinuity (RD) and interrupted time series (ITS) designs, two strong and practical alternatives to the randomized control trial (RCT). Cool Trick: Take Advantage of Naturally Occurring Design Contexts Evaluators are often charged with …

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Experiments TIG Week: Melinda Davis on Research Designs and the Control Group Problem

Leave a Comment / Design and Analysis of Experiments / December 12, 2016 December 23, 2016

I am Melinda Davis, a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona in Psychology, coordinate the Program Evaluation and Research Methods minor, and serve as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences. In an ideal world, evaluation studies compare two groups that differ only on the treatment assignment. Unfortunately, …

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Memorial Week: Mel Mark on Remembering Donald T. Campbell (1916–1996), Pioneer in Evaluation Methodology

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 23, 2016 May 21, 2016

This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA on May 30. My name is Mel Mark, a former AEA President and former editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. Don Campbell used pithy phrases to communicate complex philosophical or methodological issues. My favorite was: …

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Shirah Hecht on System Mapping for Research Design

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 28, 2014 March 1, 2014

Hello, I’m Shirah Hecht, Ph.D, Program Evaluator with Academic Technology Services within the Harvard University Info Tech area. Here is a simple “trick” for beginning to develop a research design. I call this “system mapping.” You may connect it to stakeholder analysis or concept mapping, since it blends the two in a way – but …

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