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Allen-Platt, Claire; Gerstner, Clara-Christina; Boruch, Robert; Ruby, Alan – Review of Research in Education, 2021
When a researcher tests an educational program, product, or policy in a randomized controlled trial and detects a significant effect on an outcome, the intervention is usually classified as something that "works." When expected effects are not found, there is seldom an orderly and transparent analysis of plausible reasons why.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intervention, Failure, Systems Approach