Adjusting for Confounding Factors in Quasi-Experiments: Another Reanalysis of the Westinghouse Head Start Evaluation.

Magidson, Jay; Sorbom, Dag

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Publication Date: 1982

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Adjusting for Confounding Factors in Quasi-Experiments: Another Reanalysis of the Westinghouse Head Start Evaluation.

Magidson, Jay; Sorbom, Dag

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v4 n3 p321-29 Fall 1982

LISREL V computer program is applied to a weak quasi-experimental design involving the Head Start program, as a multiple analysis attempt to assure that differences between nonequivalent control groups do not confound interpretation of a posteriori differences. (PN)

Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Early Childhood Education, Mathematical Models, Program Evaluation, Quasiexperimental Design, Research Design, Research Problems

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