Chris is an educator with a background in psychology and counseling. He also holds a PhD in public affairs, and has worked as a counselor and teacher for community college students for more than 10 years. What is a Quasi-Experiment?
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Received01 June 2023 Revised05 June 2024 Accepted14 June 2024 Published26 June 2024 Issue DateSeptember 2024 DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-024-09981-2 Keywords Quasi-experiment Regression discontinuity Difference-in-differences Interrupted time series Instrumental variable Propensity scoreAccess...
They ran a field experiment in a course at the University of Calabria (Italy) where students were given the opportunity to choose between two evaluation schemes at the beginning of a course: the traditional system or their experimental alternative. Students opting for the latter were randomly ...
The experiment group that participated in the NFT showed a statistically significant improvement in the MMSE-K (t=-3.467, p < .01) and DSF (t=-2.646, p < .05) compared to before participation, whereas the control group did not show a statistically significant difference (p >...
"Using Social Cognition and Persuasion to Promote Energy Conservation: A Quasi Experiment1." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 18(12): 1049-1066.Gonzales, M. H., Aronson, E., & Costanzo, M. A. (1988). Using social cognition and persuasion to promote energy conser- vation: A quasi-...
Notably, a quasi-experiment may be preferable over a true experiment (or Randomized Controlled Trial; RCT) for testing the effectiveness of interventions, when randomisation is considered to be not ethical, expedient, or possible [33,34,35], or to create unwanted bias (e.g., low compliance,...
Children’s Growth in Executive Functions During COVID-19 Lockdown: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment. Established in 2008, the Russian Psychological Society's Journal «Psychology in Russia: State of the Art» publishes original articles.
Effectiveness of nurse home-visiting for disadvantaged families: results of a natural experiment. BMJ Open. 2013;3:e002720. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Olds DL, Sadler L, Kitzman H. Programs for parents of infants and toddlers: recent evidence from randomized trials. J Child...
One example of this type of quasi-experiment would be to compare two communities that are considered similar to find out if they both respond similarly to a certain change. Maybe the researcher is interested in learning the impact of a $5000 grant on two small communities which differ only in...