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Aug 23, 2018 · In a time when answers are sought to questions of efficacy and effectiveness of education policies and practices, RCTs have a special role. Uniquely among research designs, they are able to obtain unbiased estimates of the average effects of these policies and practices on children and young people’s education and wider outcomes.
- The trials of evidence-based practice in education: a ...
With the increasingly widespread use of RCTs in education,...
- The trials of evidence-based practice in education: a ...
Jul 9, 2018 · With the increasingly widespread use of RCTs in education, there is the growing expertise within the education research community to design and undertake more nuanced and sophisticated trials that explicitly seek to contribute to theory testing and development and that are acutely aware of the contingent and context-specific nature of educational interventions.
- Paul Connolly, Ciara Keenan, Karolina Urbanska
- 2018
All RCTs should have pre-specified primary outcomes, should be registered with a clinical trials database and should have appropriate ethical approvals. RCTs can have their drawbacks, including their high cost in terms of time and money, problems with generalisabilty (participants that volunteer to participate might not be representative of the population being studied) and loss to follow up.
- Eduardo Hariton, Joseph J Locascio
- 2018
Jul 26, 2021 · In the United States, the National Academy of Sciences convened the Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research in 2000, with the charge to “review and synthesize . . . the science and practice of scientific educational research and consider how to support high quality science. . .” (National Research Council, 2001, p. 1).
- Samuel L. Odom, Samuel L. Odom
- 2021
Apr 4, 2014 · One of a series of Research in Schools ‘How to’ Guides, designed to help practitioners run research projects in education. To support schools in engaging with and running research, we have made our popular ‘How to’ Guides available to download free of charge. Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are seen as the gold standard for ...
The Role of RCTs in Educational Research The rather trenchant nature of debates that have taken place over the last decade surrounding the use of RCTs in education, as illustrated by Cohen et al. (2011), are more a reflection of broader political rather than methodological concerns. Politically, it is the case that RCTs
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The use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), most commonly a medical sciences research tool, is a hotly debated topic in Education. This book examines the controversial aspects of RCTs in Education and sets out the potential and pitfalls of the method. Drawing on their own extensive experience of running RCTs, and their work at the Centre ...
