Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation:

William Shadish (Ph.D., 1978, Purdue University) is a professor of psychology at the University of Memphis. His recent research pertains to experimental design, meta-analysis, methodology, and program evaluation theory. In the past, he has done extensive research on long-term care for the chronically mentally ill. With his colleagues at the University of Memphis, Dr. Shadish has studied the psychology of science, both theoretically and empirically.

Thomas D. Cook (Ph.D., 1967, Stanford University) is a professor of sociology, psychology, education and social policy, as well as a Faculty Fellow, Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University. His major research interests include examining routes out of poverty and methodology, dealing with the design and execution of social experiments, methods for promoting causal generalization, and theories of evaluation practice. Dr. Cook has written or edited seven books and has published numerous articles and book chapters. He was the recipient of the Myrdal Prize for Science from the Evaluation Research Society in 1982 and the Donald Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology from the Policy Sciences Organization in 1988. He is a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and a member of its committee on the Future of Work.