Digest of Social Experiments
- ISBN-10
- 0877666482
- ISBN-13
- 9780877666486
- Category
- Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
- Pages
- 561
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Urban Institute Press
- Authors
- David H. Greenberg, Mark Shroder
Description
Social experimentation is the most powerful method available to isolate the impacts of social programs. It involves the random assignment of the test groups to otherwise identical "treatment" and "control" sample groups, so that any differences that emerge at the end of the experiment can be interpreted as results of the program. It is the only social science measurement tool that resembles the methods used by the natural sciences. This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on all known evaluations that have used or are using social experimentation to measure the impact of a social program. The authors inventory 145 completed and 75 ongoing social experiments, giving the cost, time period, treatments tested, outcomes of interest, sample sizes and target populations, design issues, and methodological limitations.
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