Lecture Slides (Not available prior to class)
Required readings:
- What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. (2016) ‘Guide to Scoring Evidence: Using the Marland Scientific Methods Scale’. https://whatworksgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/16-06-28_Scoring_Guide.pdf
- Farrington, D.P. (2003) ‘Methodological quality standards for evaluation research’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 587(1): 49-68. (A very influential set of criteria for what constitutes good evaluation in relation to quantitative research.) https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716202250789
Further reading and resources:
- Lösel, F. (2007) ‘Doing evaluation research in criminology: balancing scientific and practical demands’, in R.D. King and E. Wincup (eds) Doing Research on Crime and Justice, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 141-170. Download from Moodle
- Rossi, P.H., Freeman, H.E. and Lipsey, M.W. (2004) Evaluation: A systematic approach, 7th ed., Thousand Oaks: Sage.
- Borenstein, M., Hedges, L., Higgins, J.P.T. and Rothstein, H.R. (2009) Introduction to Meta-Analysis, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Read chapters 1 and 2. Access ebook via iDiscover
- Wilson, D.B. (2009) ‘Missing a critical piece of the pie: simple document search strategies inadequate for systematic reviews’, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 5(4): 429–440. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-009-9085-5