Once you have determined your research question, the next step is to decide on a research design. As random assignment tends to be challenging in SoTL, most projects tend to fall into the ...

The White House’s Social Innovation Fund, which will support intermediary grant-making institutions that “identify and invest in promising organizations to help them build their evidence-base and ...

An analysis of one evaluation design controversy is used to demonstrate (1) the need for better ways of evaluating the risks and benefits of non-experimental designs in policy research; (2) the ...

We investigate two new strategies for the numerical solution of optimal stopping problems in the regression Monte Carlo (RMC) framework proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz in 2001. First, we propose ...

Introductory quantitative skills required to conduct experimental research and analyze resulting data. Principles of measurement, modeling of experimental data, and statistical design of experiments.

In this module, we will introduce the basic conceptual framework for experimental design and define the models that will allow us to answer meaningful questions about the differences between group ...