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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

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