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Direct linkSt.Clair, Travis; Cook, Thomas D.; Hallberg, Kelly – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
Although evaluators often use an interrupted time series (ITS) design to test hypotheses about program effects, there are few empirical tests of the design's validity. We take a randomized experiment on an educational topic and compare its effects to those from a comparative ITS (CITS) design that uses the same treatment group as the experiment…
Descriptors: Time, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Research Design
Wing, Coady; Cook, Thomas D. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
The sharp regression discontinuity design (RDD) has three key weaknesses compared to the randomized clinical trial (RCT). It has lower statistical power, it is more dependent on statistical modeling assumptions, and its treatment effect estimates are limited to the narrow subpopulation of cases immediately around the cutoff, which is rarely of…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Research Design, Statistical Analysis, Research Problems
