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Experimental & Quasi-Experimental Designs
- Chapter 4: Quasi-experimental and experimental designs: more powerful evaluation designs from Guide to Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Work Injuries: How to show whether a safety intervention really works, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2001-119/pdfs/2001-119.pdf
- Applied Social Psychology: 4. Research designs in applied social psychology. some of Chapter 4 is available through Google Books.
- Random Selection and Random Assignment, the reasoning for each, what they accomplish, and the difference between them.
- Research Methods Test, Flash Cards, Definitions of Terms in Experimental, Quasi-experimental, and Correlational Research: http://quizlet.com/2197801/research-methods-test-2-flash-cards/
- Shadish, W.R., Cook, T.D., & Campbell, D.T. (2002). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference. Wadsworth Cengage learning. Partially available here: https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/132646/mod_resource/content/1/Estratto_ShadishCookCampbellExperimental2002.pdf
- West, S. G., Biesanz, J. C., & Pitts, S. C. (2000). Causal inference and generalization in field settings: Experimental and quasi-experimental designs. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology (p. 49–80). Cambridge University Press. Partially available: https://books.google.com/books?id=j7aawGLbtEoC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false
