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ERIC Number: EJ761979
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-May
Pages: 9
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-3085
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Experimental Control and Threats to Internal Validity of Concurrent and Nonconcurrent Multiple Baseline Designs
Christ, Theodore J.
Psychology in the Schools, v44 n5 p451-459 May 2007
Single-case research designs are often applied within school psychology. This article provides a critical review of the scientific merit of both concurrent and nonconcurrent multiple baseline (MB) designs, relative to their capacity to assess threats of internal validity and establish experimental control. Distinctions are established between AB replications and nonconcurrent multiple baseline designed studies using the initial conception proposed by P.J. Watson and E.A. Workman (1981). Despite some previously pessimistic evaluations of nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs, the findings of this review suggest that various threats of internal validity can be assessed and ruled out using either concurrent or nonconcurrent MB designs. It seems that nonconcurrent designs can be used to assess the intervening effects of history, but might be more prone to threats of mortality. These and other threats of internal validity are reviewed and recommendations are provided. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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