Advances in Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis (J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation)

The intent of this volume of New Directions for Program Evaluation is to update, even to alter, our thinking about quasi-experimentation in applied social research and program evaluation. This volume makes the case that we have moved beyond the traditional thinking on quasi-experiments as a collection of specific designs and threats to validity toward a more integrated, synthetic view of quasi-experimentation as part of a general logical epistemological framework for research. This is the 31st issue of New Directions for Program Evaluation. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

WILLIAM M. K. TROCHIM is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Service Studies in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. He is the author of a bok on quasi-experimental research design entitled Research Design for Program Evaluation: The Regression Discontinuity Approach. He has written on a wide range of topics related to program evaluation, incluing experimental and quasi-experimental research, statistical analyses for selection bias, program implementation, research quality control, statistical simulation, and conceptualization methods.