Nonequivalent control group quasi-experimental design¶

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The article adapts Campbell and Stanley's nonequivalent control group design to standalone library instruction: treatment and control sections are pre-existing course sections rather than individually randomized, and an in-class pretest strengthens evidence that the groups are similar. The librarian retains control of administering and collecting pretests, posttests and surveys within the single session. The authors frame this as a site-specific methodological strategy for evaluating pre-session homework independently of identical in-class instruction.

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• Nonequivalent control group quasi-experimental design for assessing pre-session library instruction within a one-shot session: The article adapts Campbell and Stanley's nonequivalent control group design to standalone library instruction: treatment and control sections are pre-existing course sections rather than individually randomized, and an in-class pretest strengthens evidence that the groups are similar. The librarian retains control of administering and collecting pretests, posttests and surveys within the single session. The authors frame this as a site-specific methodological strategy for evaluating pre-session homework independently of identical in-class instruction. (Goetz et al. (2015))

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• Goetz, J. E., & Barber, C. R. (2015). Evaluating a pre-session homework exercise in a standalone information literacy class. Communications in Information Literacy, 9(2). https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/