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Diaz, Juan Jose; Handa, Sudhanshu – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
Not all policy questions can be addressed by social experiments. Nonexperimental evaluation methods provide an alternative to experimental designs but their results depend on untestable assumptions. This paper presents evidence on the reliability of propensity score matching (PSM), which estimates treatment effects under the assumption of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Research Design, Reliability, Program Evaluation
Alatorre, Silvia; Figueras, Olimpia – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this article, which is part of an ongoing research, a classification is proposed for ratio comparison problems, according to their context, their quantity type, and their numerical structure. Deriving from this classification, an interview protocol was designed, and guidelines for the interpretation of answers into strategies were decided. A…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Design, Mathematical Concepts, Comparative Analysis