Keith Morrison

Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education

Exploring Key Claims, Issues and Debates

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780367486518
• ISBN-10: 0367486512
• Artikelnr.: 69983681

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.