@incollection{discovery10050305,
       publisher = {Routledge},
          editor = {R Gorur and S Sellar and G Steiner-Khamsi},
           pages = {35--52},
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
           title = {Randomized Control Trials: Limitations for Explaining and Improving Learning Outcomes},
       booktitle = {World Yearbook of Education 2019 Comparative Methodology in an Era of Big Data and Global Networks},
         address = {Abingdon, Oxon},
            year = {2019},
             url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315147338/chapters/10.4324/9781315147338-4},
        abstract = {Studies that use Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) to assess impact have been framed and sold to governments as the only reliable tool that allows for evidence-based decision-making. This chapter provides a critique of the claim that RCTs provide "gold standard" evidence for policymakers. The central argument is that RCTs frame out too much of what is important about, and for, education system-wide reforms and thus are of limited value for policy-making. Instead, there is a need to turn to political economy approaches that focus on institutions and political structures.},
          author = {Oketch, MO}
}