RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS IN EDUCATION: ASSESSING THE OBJECTIONS TO DOING THEM

被引：7
作者：
Cook, Thomas D. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
来源：
ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY | 2007年 / 16卷 / 05期
关键词：
Random assignment; Educational research; Causal inference;
D O I：
10.1080/10438590600982335
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
This article analyzes a variety of reasons that are offered within the community of educational researchers to explain why so few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been undertaken. The article suggests strategies for dealing with most of these objections. However, some of these objections are serious enough, and the remedies sufficiently incomplete, that it is difficult to call RCTs the 'gold standard' of causal inference in the educational sector.
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页码：331 / 355
页数：25
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