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Randomised Controlled Trials and the Interventionisation of Education
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Burnett, Cathy; Coldwell, Mike – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
Since the 1990s, there have been repeated calls for the systematic use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to inform educational decision-making. The advent of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) -- described as England's What Works Centre for Education -- in 2011 has made this a reality in England: by 2020, over a third of English schools…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials, Professional Development, Decision Making
Commentary: So Was It Worth It? a Commentary on Fricke Et Al. and Hagen Et Al. (2017)
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McCartney, Elspeth – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Fricke et al. and Hagen et al. (2017) each report on large-scale pragmatic randomised controlled trials delivered in schools or nurseries, investigating language interventions for vulnerable children and showing moderate positive effect sizes. Such research is part of a recent development of 'what works' research in England, and the number of…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Decision Making, Foreign Countries