Taming randomized controlled trials in education : exploring key claims, issues and debates
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Taming randomized controlled trials in education : exploring key claims, issues and debates
Routledge, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "There is a recent surge in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) within education globally, with disproportionate claims being made about what they show, 'what works', and what constitutes the best 'evidence'. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship from across the world, Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education critically addresses the increased use of RCTs in education, exploring their benefits, limits and cautions, and ultimately questioning the prominence given to them. While acknowledging that randomized controlled trials do have some place in education, the book nevertheless argues that this place should be limited. Drawing together all arguments for and against RCTs in a comprehensive and easily accessible single volume, the book also adds new perspectives and insights to the conversation; crucially, the book considers the limits of their usefulness and applicability in education, raising a range of largely unexplored concerns about their use. Chapters include discussions on: The
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- Questioning evidence of 'what works' in educational research
- Understanding 'what works' and what constitutes 'evidence'
- The search for causality
- The rise of randomized controlled trials in evidence-based education
- The impact of complexity theory and chaos theory
- 'Medical models' and randomized controlled trials in education
- Contexts and outcomes in randomized controlled trials
- Design issues in randomized controlled trials
- Sampling in randomized controlled trials
- Data analysis in randomized controlled trials
- Reporting and evaluating randomized controlled trials in education
- Generalisability and generalizing in randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis and meta-meta-analysis
- From evidence to policy to practice
- Fifty theses on randomized controlled trials in education
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