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Item Research Methods in Social Relations-Quasi-Experimental Designs(SPSSI, 1986) Kidder, Louis H.; Judd, Charles M.Quasi-experimental designs provide a way to study some naturally occurring social treatments. They are a compromise between a true experiment that has high internal validity and the poor pre-experiments that have almost no internal validity at all. Quasi experiments enable us to rule out some threats to validity because they include more data points than the pre-experiments. The number of quasi-experimental designs that a creative researcher can construct is limitless. We have presented three types that are extensions of pre-experiments to show how the additional data points make a previously uninterpretable design interpretable. A determined researcher can design yet unthought-of quasi experiments by gathering data from enough subjects at enough times to rule out many threats to internal validity, so that even without random assignment, it will be possible to infer causes and effects.Item African Regional Workshop on Participatory Research, Mzumbe, 2nd - 7th July, 1979: Group discussion on Jipemoyo case study; Groups III & II(1979-07-07)This report presents the outcomes of group discussions during the African Regional Workshop on Participatory Research in Mzumbe, 2nd - 7th July, 1979, centered around the Jipemoyo case study. The discussion addressed the origins of the pastoralist project, which was not initiated by the villagers but rather by an academic interested in maintaining contacts and contributing to development. The report details the shift from academic interest to a more regional and governmental project, with the researchers transitioning to a consultative role as the project was handed over to local authorities. The report critiques the involvement of external aid, specifically Finnish aid, and discusses concerns about neo-colonial exploitation versus genuine development efforts. It also highlights the growing dependency of villagers on researchers, the importance of maintaining researchers' roles as documenters rather than implementers, and the emerging awareness of the critical land nationalization issue for pastoralists in Tanzania.