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Wrigley, Terry; McCusker, Sean – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2019
This paper examines the insistent claims by advocates of evidence-based teaching that it is a rigorous scientific approach. The paper questions the view that randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses are the only truly scientific methods in educational research. It suggests these claims are often based on a rhetorical appeal which relies on…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Athletics
Tipton, Elizabeth; Fellers, Lauren; Caverly, Sarah; Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Borman, Geoffrey; Sullivan, Kate; Ruiz de Castillo, Veronica – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Randomized experiments are commonly used to evaluate if particular interventions improve student achievement. While these experiments can establish that a treatment actually "causes" changes, typically the participants are not randomly selected from a well-defined population and therefore the results do not readily generalize. Three…
Descriptors: Site Selection, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Experiments, Research Methodology
Conn, Katharine – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The aim of this dissertation is to identify effective educational interventions in Sub-Saharan African with an impact on student learning. This is the first meta-analysis in the field of education conducted for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper takes an in-depth look at twelve different types of education interventions or programs and attempts to not…
Descriptors: African American Achievement, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Intervention