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  title info:
    title: Designing a quasi-experimental study to test the community college penalty using propensity score matching methods
  name:
    name part: Dietrich, Cecile C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lichtenberger, Eric J.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Place of publication not identified]
    publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: We present a case study of the process through which a methodology was developed and applied to a quasi-experimental research study that employed propensity score matching. Methodological decisions are discussed and summarized, including an explanation of the approaches selected for each step in the study as well as rationales for these selections. Examples include identification and creation of treatment and control groups, application of relational database software and methods, calculation of propensity scores, accounting for multilevel effects, post-treatment changes and identification of post-treatment adjustment, and selection of a propensity matching algorithm. We demonstrate that much of the propensity score matching process focuses on creating a valid counterfactual or control group. Thus, propensity score matching allows researchers to focus on creating conditions that help show the impact of the treatment, rather than on other factors that may be related to the outcome of interest. Additional items discussed include decisions about missing data, use of balancing diagnostics, determination of the effect of the treatment on the outcome of interest, and sensitivity analysis. The authors propose that an appropriate methodology for such a study is best arrived at through an iterative, experimental process.
  note: Cecile C. Dietrich, Eric J. Lichtenberger.
  note: Title from content provider.
  subject:
    topic: Community colleges
    topic: Research
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Methodology
    topic: Research
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Collèges communautaires
    topic: Recherche
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Méthodologie
    topic: Recherche
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Community colleges
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Methodology
    topic: Research
  classification: LB2328 .D54 2017
  classification: 378.15430973
  identifier: 9781473956551
  identifier: 1473956552
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  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 170208
    record change date: 20240923170033.9
    record identifier: in00005492203
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng