This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with a user-friendly presentation of Campbell?s essential work (including his latest thoughts on some of his classic works) in social measurement. The book includes Campbell?s arguments as to why qualitative approaches belong with quantitative ones as the assumptive background to relevant quantitative measures, his debate with deconstructionists and social constructionists on measurement validity, and an expansion and further explanation of his multitrait-multimethod matrix. By including overviews for each part and article as well as provide social scientists with useful insights into Campbell?s papers in a format accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with a user-friendly presentation of Campbell?s essential work (including his latest thoughts on some of his classic works) in social measurement. The book includes Campbell?s arguments as to why qualitative approaches belong with quantitative ones as the assumptive background to relevant quantitative measures, his debate with deconstructionists and social constructionists on measurement validity, and an expansion and further explanation of his multitrait-multimethod matrix. By including overviews for each part and article as well as provide social scientists with useful insights into Campbell?s papers in a format accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with a user-friendly presentation of Donald T. Campbell?s essential work (including his thoughts on some of his classic works) in social experimentation. The book includes Campbell?s exploration of the experimenting society and how experimentation can be used to improve society; the compatibility of quantitative and qualitative methods for validity seeking; threats to the validity of social experiments and how they can be controlled; the degree to which the social sciences can achieve scientific status; and the degree to which the operations, products, and consequences of science have a social impact. By including introductions for each part and detailed overviews to each article, Social Experimentation provides social scientists with useful insights into Campbell?s papers in a format accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.