Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research
Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research
Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research
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Meeting ITS Conditions in Educational<br />
<strong>Research</strong><br />
• Long span of data not available and so the pretest<br />
functional <strong>for</strong>m is often unclear<br />
• Implementing the intervention can span several<br />
years<br />
• Instantaneous effects are rare<br />
• Effect sizes are usually small<br />
• And so the need arises to develop methods <strong>for</strong><br />
abbreviated time series and to supplement them<br />
with additional design features such as a control<br />
series to help bolster the weak counterfactual<br />
associated with a short pretest time series