References & tools

Print references

A basic evaluation textbook that describes experimental approaches is Evaluation: A Systematic Approach (Rossi, Lipsey, & Freeman, 2003), now in its seventh edition. Fitz-Gibbon and Morris' (1987) book, How To Design a Program Evaluation, is part of a ten-volume Program Evaluation Kit published by Sage Publications that encompasses experimental methods as well as alternative models (http://www.sagepub.com/).

Online references

Scientific Research in Education, a volume published online by the National Academy Press in 2002, provides guidance for evaluators who choose to use experimental methods similar to those employed in medical trials: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309082919/html/R1.html.

Online instruments, tools, guidelines, etc.

This website from the World Bank clarifies the difference between true experimental and quasi-experimental methods: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/impact/methods/designs.htm.

Tools for establishing the rationale for experimental evaluation approaches can be found at: http://www.children.smartlibrary.org/NewInterface/segment.cfm?segment=2446.