Abstract
This article presents the rationale and procedures for conducting a process analysis in evaluation research. Such an analysis attempts to identify the process that mediates the effects of some treatment, by estimating the parameters of a causal chain between the treatment and some outcome variable. Two different procedures for estimating mediation are discussed. In addition we present procedures for examining whether a treatment exerts its effects, in part, by altering the mediating process that produces the outcome. Finally, the benefits of process analysis in evaluation research are underlined.
Keywords
Outcome (game theory)Process (computing)PsychologyMediationProcess managementCausal chainCausal analysisComputer scienceProcess analysisRisk analysis (engineering)Management scienceMedicineEngineeringStatisticsPolitical scienceMathematics
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Charles M. Judd,
David A. Kenny
(1981).
Process Analysis.
Evaluation Review
, 5
(5)
, 602-619.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x8100500502
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- 10.1177/0193841x8100500502