Keith Morrison

Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring Key Claims, Issues and Debates

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000089929
• Artikelnr.: 59636072

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.