The Design and Conduct of Meaningful Experiments Involving Human Participants

R. Barker Bausell is Professor Emeritus, at the University of Maryland.

Introduction ; Part I: Introduction to the Experimental Process ; Chapter One: Conducting Meaningful Experiments: Prerequisites and Purposes ; Chapter Two: Causal Inferences and the Strange (but Fictitious) Case of Mrs. Smith ; Chapter Three: An Introduction to the Design of Meaningful Experiments via the Continuing Adventures of Dr. Jones ; Chapter Four: Why Poorly Designed Experiments Are Inadequate for Making Complex Inferences: The Single Group Pretest/Post-test Design (or the Unfortunate Conclusion of Dr. Jones's Foray into the World of Science) ; Part II: Experimental Designs for Research Involving Humans ; Chapter Five: Enter the Control Group and a Deus ex Machina ; Chapter Six: The Design of Single Factor, Between Subjects Experiments ; Chapter Seven: Factorial Designs ; Chapter Eight: Repeated Measures, within Subjects, and Longitudinal Designs ; Part III: Maximizing and Implementing the Experimental Design ; Chapter Nine: Ensuring Sufficient Statistical Power ; Chapter Ten: Conducting the Experiment ; Part IV: Other Experimental Issues, Designs, and Paradigms ; Chapter Eleven: External Validity (Generalizability) ; Chapter Twelve: Three Additional Experimental Paradigms: Single-Case, Program Evaluation/Natural Experiments, and Quality Improvement Research ; Chapter Thirteen: Experimental Bias ; Chapter Fourteen: Epilogue and Review