The Trials of Evidence-based Education

The Promises, Opportunities and Problems of Trials in Education

Stephen Gorard, Beng Huat See, Nadia Siddiqui

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138209664
• eBook ISBN: 9781315456874
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise, limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice, as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts.

Providing a detailed look at the pros, cons and areas for improvement in evidence-based policy and practice, this book includes consideration of the following:

• What is involved in a robust evaluation for education.
• The issues in conducting trials and how to assess the trustworthiness of research findings.
• New methods for the design, conduct, analysis and use of evidence from trials and examining their implications.
• What policy-makers, head teachers and practitioners can learn from the evidence to inform practice.

In this well-structured and thoughtful text, the results and implications of over 20 studies conducted by the authors are combined with a much larger number of studies from their systematic reviews, and the implications are spelled out for the research community, policy-makers, schools wanting to run their own evaluations, and for practitioners using evidence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• PART I  Introduction
• PART II  Issues in conducting trials
• PART III  What do trials show?
• PART IV  Conclusions
• References
• Index