52.076 - Effects of Design and Methods in Evaluating Policies and Programs

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Advancing Causal Pluralism in Educational Evaluation: In this paper, we promote causal pluralism, which contends that there are multiple ways of viewing and approaching causality.

Making Intangibles into Tangible Results by Data Envelopment Analysis Method: This study intended to evaluate human performance of private companies in terms of relative efficiency by DEA.

Propensity Score Matching and Its Application: The three goals of this paper are to facilitate the use of propensity score matching by: (1) critically reviewing the available literature on propensity score matching; (2) demonstrating the use of propensity score matching in a non-randomized program evaluation; and (3) provide syntax for applying propensity score matching.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research on Evaluation

Papers

• Advancing Causal Pluralism in Educational Evaluation - Lisa Dyson, University of Auckland; Emily Gates, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Making Intangibles Into Tangible Results With the Data Envelopment Analysis Method - Soyoung Kim, Seoul National University of Science & Technology

• Propensity Score Matching and Its Application - Ming-E Chen, Indiana University - Bloomington; Allison Ann Howland, Indiana University; Jeffrey A. Anderson, Indiana University; Li-Ting Chen, Indiana University; Heidi R Cornell, Wichita State University

Discussant

• Juna Z. Snow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign