Randomized Experiments in Education: Assessing the Objections to Doing Them

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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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Cook, Thomas D.
Published in:	Economics of Innovation and New Technology. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1043-8599. - Vol. 16.2007, 5, p. 331-355
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals
Subject:	Random assignment \| Educational research \| Causal inference

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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