Evidence matters : randomized trials in education research /

Annotation Opinions about education programs and practices are offered frequently -- by children, parents, teachers, and policymakers. Credible studies of the impact of programs on the performance of children are far less frequent. Researchers use a variety of tools to determine their impact and eff...

Full beskrivning

Bibliografiska uppgifter
Övriga upphovsmän: Mosteller, Frederick, 1916-2006, Boruch, Robert F.
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2002.
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvc16n69
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Overview and new directions / Robert Boruch and Frederick Mosteller
  • The politics of random assignment : implementing studies and affecting policy / Judith M. Gueron
  • The importance of randomized field trials in education and related areas / Robert Boruch, Dorothy de Moya, and Brooke Snyder
  • Resources, instruction, and research / David K. Cohen, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball
  • Missing in practice? Development and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Education / Maris A. Vinovskis
  • Objecting to the objections to using random assignment in educational research / Thomas D. Cook and Monique R. Payne
  • Randomized field trials for policy evaluation : why not in education? / Gary Burtless
  • What to do until the random assigner comes / Carol H. Weiss.