Evaluation And Experiment

Author : Larry L. Orr
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0761912959

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Social Experiments by Larry L. Orr Pdf

Intended to provide a basic understanding not only of how to design and implement social experiments, but also of how to interpret their results once they are completed, author Larry L. Orr's Social Experiments is written in a friendly, how-to manner. Through the use of illustrative examples, how-to exhibits and cases, and boldface key words, Orr provides readers with a grounding in the experimental method, including the rational and ethical issues of random assignment; designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts, costs, and benefits; dealing with potential biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process. This book will be useful not only to those who plan to conduct experiments, but also to the much larger group who will, at one time or another, want to understand the results of experimental evaluations.

Author : K. Latha
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781315392608

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Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval Models by K. Latha Pdf

Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval Models explores different algorithms for the application of evolutionary computation to the field of information retrieval (IR). As well as examining existing approaches to resolving some of the problems in this field, results obtained by researchers are critically evaluated in order to give readers a clear view of the topic. In addition, this book covers Algorithmic Solutions to the Problems in Advanced IR Concepts, including Feature Selection for Document Ranking, web page classification and recommendation, Facet Generation for Document Retrieval, Duplication Detection and seeker satisfaction in question answering community Portals. Written with students and researchers in the field on information retrieval in mind, this book is also a useful tool for researchers in the natural and social sciences interested in the latest developments in the fast-moving subject area. Key features: Focusing on recent topics in Information Retrieval research, Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval Models explores the following topics in detail: Searching in social media Using semantic annotations Ranking documents based on Facets Evaluating IR systems offline and online The role of evolutionary computation in IR Document and term clustering, Image retrieval Design of user profiles for IR Web page classification and recommendation Relevance feedback approach for Document and image retrieval

Author : Carl A. Bennett,Arthur A. Lumsdaine
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483260846

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Evaluation and Experiment by Carl A. Bennett,Arthur A. Lumsdaine Pdf

Evaluation and Experiment: Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs is a collection of papers presented at the 1973 symposium held at The Battelle Seattle Research Center. This book contains eight chapters that consider some selected aspects of the problems in evaluating the outcomes of socially important programs, such as those dealing with education, health, and economic policy. The first chapter provides an overview of the issues around the Social Program Evaluation. The next chapters deal with the successes and failures brought by social innovations; the quasi-experimental evaluation in compensatory education to estimate the true effects of such education programs; and the usefulness and validity of econometric and related nonexperimental approaches for assessing the effects of social programs. These topics are followed by surveys of a number of additional program-evaluation studies, particularly in the field of family planning or fertility control, mostly carried out as experiments or quasi-experiments in Asian and Latin American countries. Other chapters describe the decision processes that involve explicit assessment of the worth or merit of outcomes and employ multivalued utility analysis and outline the ways in which evaluative data are useful in providing feedback to program or institutional operations and decisions. The final chapter discusses resolutions for some of the disagreements expressed by others concerning the role of field experiments, constraints in their utilization, and other factors that enter into a comprehensive conception of program evaluation.

Author : Donald T. Campbell,Julian C. Stanley
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research by Donald T. Campbell,Julian C. Stanley Pdf

We shall examine the validity of 16 experimental designs against 12 common threats to valid inference. By experiment we refer to that portion of research in which variables are manipulated and their effects upon other variables observed. It is well to distinguish the particular role of this chapter. It is not a chapter on experimental design in the Fisher (1925, 1935) tradition, in which an experimenter having complete mastery can schedule treatments and measurements for optimal statistical efficiency, with complexity of design emerging only from that goal of efficiency. Insofar as the designs discussed in the present chapter become complex, it is because of the intransigency of the environment: because, that is, of the experimenter’s lack of complete control.

Author : Laura R. Peck
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506390062

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Experimental Evaluation Design for Program Improvement by Laura R. Peck Pdf

The concepts of cause and effect are critical to the field of program evaluation. Experimentally-designed evaluations—those that randomize to treatment and control groups—offer a convincing means for establishing a causal connection between a program and its effects. Experimental Evaluation Design for Program Improvement considers a range of impact evaluation questions, particularly those questions that focus on the impact of specific aspects of a program. Laura R. Peck shows how a variety of experimental evaluation design options can provide answers to these questions, and she suggests opportunities for experiments to be applied in more varied settings and focused on program improvement efforts.

Author : United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Performance contracts in education
ISBN : IND:30000109340087

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An Experiment in Performance Contracting by United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation Pdf

Author : E. Voorhees,Donna K. Harman
Publisher : Digital Libraries and Electron
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015062831154

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TREC by E. Voorhees,Donna K. Harman Pdf

A comprehensive review of TREC (Text REtrieval Conference). Describes TREC history, test collections, and retrieval methodology. Includes evaluations of specific tasks and perspectives on TREC from participants.

Author : Robert F. Boruch
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803935102

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Randomized Experiments for Planning and Evaluation by Robert F. Boruch Pdf

Boruch untangles the complexities of randomized field experiments, exploring the criteria for deciding whether a programme has worked or not, standards used to judge the ethcial propriety of the experiments and baseline measures.

Author : Donald T. Campbell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226092488

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Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences by Donald T. Campbell Pdf

Selections from the work of an influential contributor to the methodology of the social sciences. He treats: measurement, experimental design, epistemology, and sociology of science each section introduced by the editor, Samuel Overman. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Author : Dr Antonije E. Onjia
Publisher : Tehnološko-metalurški falkultet, Beograd, Institut za nuklearne nauke VINČA
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788674013380

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Chemometric Approach to the Experiment Optimization and Data Evaluation in Analytical Chemistry by Dr Antonije E. Onjia Pdf

Author : K. Latha
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781315392615

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Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval Models by K. Latha Pdf

Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval Models explores different algorithms for the application of evolutionary computation to the field of information retrieval (IR). As well as examining existing approaches to resolving some of the problems in this field, results obtained by researchers are critically evaluated in order to give readers a clear view of the topic. In addition, this book covers Algorithmic Solutions to the Problems in Advanced IR Concepts, including Feature Selection for Document Ranking, web page classification and recommendation, Facet Generation for Document Retrieval, Duplication Detection and seeker satisfaction in question answering community Portals. Written with students and researchers in the field on information retrieval in mind, this book is also a useful tool for researchers in the natural and social sciences interested in the latest developments in the fast-moving subject area. Key features: Focusing on recent topics in Information Retrieval research, Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval Models explores the following topics in detail: Searching in social media Using semantic annotations Ranking documents based on Facets Evaluating IR systems offline and online The role of evolutionary computation in IR Document and term clustering, Image retrieval Design of user profiles for IR Web page classification and recommendation Relevance feedback approach for Document and image retrieval

Author : Terry Russell Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024941351

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Evaluation of the Impacts of the Washington Alternative Work Search Experiment by Terry Russell Johnson Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performance contracts in education
ISBN : UIUC:30112067624566

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Evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity's Performance Contracting Experiment by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Henry W. Riecken,Robert F. Boruch
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483269955

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Social Experimentation by Henry W. Riecken,Robert F. Boruch Pdf

Social Experimentation: A Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention summarizes the available knowledge about how randomized experiments might be used in planning and evaluating ameliorative social programs. The book presents various aspects of social experimentation - design, measurement, execution, sponsorship, and utilization of results. Chapters are devoted to topics on experimentation as a method of program planning and evaluation; experimental design and analysis; institutional and political factors in social experimentation; and aspects of time and institutional capacity. Sociologists will find the book a valuable piece of reference.

Author : William Mandeville Austin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111675886

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Papers in linguistics in honor of Léon Dostert by William Mandeville Austin Pdf