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QUASI
• QUASI comes from the latin word for « as if » and in English it
means giving the appearance of.
• A quasi experiment is look like an experiment but it is not.
• Quasi also means resembling but not actually the same. These
involves procedures resembles to those of experiments
Quasi Experimental Design
• It is a type of design that approximates control features of a true
experiment to infer that a given treatment have an intended effect.
• Alternative when true experiments are not possible.
Quasi Experiments
True Experiments Lacks degree of
Control control
Randomization Lacks of
Manipulation of a variable to randomization
compare groups. Non manipulable
variable
Program Evaluation
Needs
• Whether there are in fact problems that needs to be addressed in
target population.
• E.g., Is literacy problem of society?
• what services elderly needed?
• What is need of a community….
• Water, electricity, pollution, roads, recreational spots…
•
Process
• Process evaluation and program monitoring
• Whether program is providing the serviices it is supposed to provide.
• Observational methods are used.
• It is seen whether program is implemented accurately or not.
•
Outcome
• Is program effective in order to meet the needs stated goals.
• Do citizens have access to needs.
• E.g., recreational activities
• water supply
• electricity
• roads
•
Efficiency
• It relate to cost of the program… choices have to been made
between govt and other organization
Successfulness
• Program of a program
Evaluation
How we could
• Evaluation improve it further.
researchers takes
Programactions
immediate Evaluation
on basisVs
of Basic research
Basic research
research. Tentative
Determine whether program was Conduct research,
successful and needed to be continued research and research to
in future. draw strong and valid
Extreme case of applied research. conclusions.
Practical. Theoretical
BASIC RESEARCH
Concerned with
knowledge for the sake
of theory.
Its design is not
controlled by the
practical usefulness of
the findings.
PRACTICAL
APPLIED (action) RESEARCH(progra
RESEARCH m evaluation)
Concerned with showing Goes one step
how the findings can be further and applies
applied or summarized the findings of
into some type of research to a
teaching methodology. specific practical
teaching situation.
Disadvantages
• Difficulty of random assigning of participants.
• Getting administration to cooperate with experimental procedures.
• Dealing with loss of participants
Advantage
• Based on sound experimental methodology.
• Inform society problems and their better solution for treating social
problems.