Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education : Exploring Key Claims, Issues and Debates (Paperback)

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. Generalisability and generalizing in randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis and meta-meta-analysis. 13. From evidence to policy to practice. 14. Fifty theses on randomized controlled trials in education.