Session 7

Impact Evaluation: Comparison Group Designs

Text

Rossi, Peter H.; Mark W. Lipsey and Gary T. Henry (2019) Evaluation: A Systematic Approach. (8th Edition) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Chapter 7.

Glossary

Slides & Illustrations

Chapter Seven Illustrations; Chapter Seven Slides; Interrupted Time Series Design; Difference - in - Difference Design; Cohort Studies; Quasi-Experimental Designs; Fixed and Random Effects Design;

Key Concepts

• Attrition (160)
• Comparion group (158)
• Covariate (168)
• External validity (164)
• Interfering event (162)
• Internal validity (164)
• Interrupted time series (176)
• Intervention group (158)
• Matching (171)
• Maturation (163)
• Program effect (158)
• Program impact (158)
• Program group (158)
• Propsensity score (172)
• Quazi-experimental design (165)
• Regression to the mean (163)
• Secular trends (162)
• Secular bias (160)

Homework: (Discussion Questions & Application Exercise Question No. 1)

Answer only the first question of the Application Excercise and use the case study Webber, Michael, Britt Crow-Miller and Sarah Rogers (2017) "The South-North Water Transfer Project: Remaking the Geography of China," Regional Studies.

NOTE: Submit the questions with your answers in World format as attachments to Canvas email and submit this homework - complete with APA citations and references - to the instructor by no later than 5 pm on the last day of Session 1 (as designated on the course schedule page that is linked above).