The Practice of Social Research

Chapter Eight.  Experiments

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TOPICS APPROPRIATE TO EXPERIMENTS
THE CLASSICAL EXPERIMENT
    Independent and Dependent Variables
    Pretesting and Posttesting
    Experimental and Control Groups
    The Double-Blind Experiment
SELECTING SUBJECTS
    Probability Sampling
    Randomization
    Matching
    Matching or Randomization?
VARIATIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
    Preexperimental Research Designs
    Validity Issues in Experimental Research
AN ILLUSTRATION OF EXPERIMENTATION
"NATURAL" EXPERIMENTS
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD
 


Web Resources

Yahoo! Directory: Tests and Experiments
    http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Psychology/Research/Tests_and_Experiments/

William D. Hacker Social Science Experimental Laboratory
    http://ssel.caltech.edu/

Stanford Prison Experiment
    http://www.prisonexp.org/