Psychological Assumptions, Experimentation, and Real World Problems: A Critique and an Alternate Approach to Evaluation.

Mitroff, Ian; Bonoma, Thomas V.

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Psychological Assumptions, Experimentation, and Real World Problems: A Critique and an Alternate Approach to Evaluation

Mitroff, Ian; Bonoma, Thomas V.

Evaluation Quarterly, 2, 2, 235-60, May 78

The decisive power of an experiment, for both social evaluation research and laboratory experimentation as well, is only as strong as the clarity of the basic assumptions which underlie it. A dialectical methodology is proposed for assessing the influence of key assumptions in both settings. (Author/CTM)

Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Error Patterns, Evaluation, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing, Research Design, Research Problems, Social Psychology, Social Science Research, Validity

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