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Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Evaluation Research. Volume 1. SAGE Research Progress Series in ...

Sage Publications, Inc, 1979

Evaluation researchers, traditionally considered to be users of quantitative methods, are now actively exploring the qualitative aspects of the performance of the programmes they are evaluating. Rather than argue the validity of either the quantitative or the qualitative approach, most of the noted contributors to this volume conclude that both are required for comprehensive evaluation.

Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook
Thomas D. Cook, Harris Cooper

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 1994

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

8 reviews
William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Excellent for doctoral students
I am a doctoral student in public health and recommend this book to my fellow doctoral students out there. It is a thorough and comprehensive text on research methods. I have gone through quite a few texts with similar titles and this stands out as the best.

Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings

4 reviews
Thomas D. Cook, Donald T. Campbell

Wadsworth Publishing, 1979

Essential for Evaluation Research
"Quasi-Experimentation" carries on the work begun by Campbell and Stanley in "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research." Beginning with a discussion of the positivist origins of science and evaluation research, it details a range of quasi-experimental approaches suitable to "real world" research, together with statistical techniques applicable to each. The book includes a ...

Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ...
Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Thomas D. Cook, ...

University Of Chicago Press, 2000

One of the myths about families in inner-city neighborhoods is that they are characterized by poor parenting. Sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his colleagues explode this and other misconceptions about success, parenting, and socioeconomic advantage in Managing to Make It . This unique study?the first in the MacArthur Foundation Studies on Successful Adolescent Development series?focuses on how and why youth are able to overcome social ...

Foundations of Program Evaluation: Theories of Practice

1 review
Dr. William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, ...

Sage Publications, Inc, 1990

Solid foundations in a classic text
This book is now old (1991). But it is a classic, and those seeking truly solid foundations in theory of evaluation (for social programs) are still well advised to start with this before moving into the more modern stuff or dabbling with other evaluation books that typically focus on methods and skim over implicit underlying theory. Two features of the book make it more valuable than simply ...

Introduction to Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

1 review
Thomas D. Cook, David L DeMets

Chapman & Hall, 2007

great introduction but not elementary
The author are very accomplished statisticians with many years of clinical trial experience and research. DeMets along with Gordon Lan is famous for the alpha spending function approach that allowed added flexibility to group sequential trials. In addition to authoring several chapters of the book, Cook and Demets edited the book and invited other prominent researchers to contribute to the ...

Credit Scoring and Credit Control (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series New Series)

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

Legal Enviornments and organizational grievances
The expansion of due process in the American work place.