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1 Experimental Designs Today’s Topics: I. Causal inference II. Internal validity III. Pre-Experimental, Experimental, and Quasi- Experiential Designs IV. External validity 2 I. Causal Inference A. Three conditions of causality 1. Cause precedes the effect 2. Cause and effect must correlate 3. No third variable involved 3 II. Internal Validity A. Internal validity § Confidence that changes in Dependent (DV) Variable are actually caused by the Independent Variable (IV) v Validity (in measurement) 4 II. Internal Validity (Cont.) B. Threats to internal validity: § Factors other than IV affects DV: 1. History 2. Maturation (passage of time) 3. Testing 4. Instrumentation 5 II. Internal Validity (Cont.) B. Threats to internal validity (Cont.): 5. Statistical regression 6. Research reactivity 7. Selection biases 8. Attrition (experimental mortality) 6 III. Pre-Experimental, Experimental, and Quasi-Experimental Designs Notations: X = introduction of stimulus, intervention, or treatment O = observation/measurement 7 III. Experimental Designs (Cont.) A. Pre-experimental designs: 1. One shot case study X O 2. One group pretest-posttest design O X O 8 III. Experimental Designs (Cont.) B. (True) Experimental Designs: Essential components 1) Random assignment (* Random selection) 2) Experimental group and control group 3) Compare changes between the groups 9 III. Experimental Designs (Cont.) B. Experimental designs: 1. Pretest-posttest control group design (Classic experimental design) R O X O R O O 2. Posttest only control group design R X O R O 10 III. Experimental Designs (Cont.) B. Experimental designs: § Strengths: § Weaknesses: 11 III. Experimental Designs (Cont,) C. Quasi-experimental designs: 1. Non-equivalent comparison group design O X O O O 2. Time-series design O O O O O X O O O O O 12 III. Experimental Designs (Cont.) C. Quasi-experimental designs 2. Time-series design 13 IV. External Validity § Generalizability § Representativeness of sample, setting and procedures § Sampling and survey research 14 NEXT WEEK: Single-case design .

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