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Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education: Exploring Key Claims, Issues and Debates book cover

1st Edition

Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education Exploring Key Claims, Issues and Debates

By Keith Morrison Copyright 2021
250 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction. Part 1. 1: Questioning Evidence of ‘what works’ in educational research. 2: Understanding ‘what works’ and what constitutes ‘evidence’. 3: The search for causality. Part 2. 4. The rise of randomized controlled trials in evidence-based education. 5. The impact of complexity theory and chaos theory. 6. ‘Medical models’ and randomized controlled trials in education. 7. Contexts and outcomes in randomized controlled trials. 8. Design issues in randomized controlled trials. 9. Sampling in randomized controlled trials. 10. Data analysis in randomized controlled trials. 11. Reporting and evaluating randomized controlled trials in education. 12. Generalizability and generalizing in randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis and meta-meta-analysis. 13. From evidence to policy to practice. 14. Summary cautions and fifty theses on randomized controlled trials in education.

Biography

Keith Morrison is Professor of Education and Vice-rector at the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China.

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