eprintid: 10050305
rev_number: 19
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datestamp: 2019-01-29 12:02:02
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type: book_section
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Oketch, MO
title: Randomized Control Trials: Limitations for Explaining and Improving Learning Outcomes
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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.
date: 2019
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315147338/chapters/10.4324/9781315147338-4
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1561835
isbn_13: 9781138550728
lyricists_name: Oketch, Moses
lyricists_id: MOOKE71
actors_name: Oketch, Moses
actors_id: MOOKE71
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Abingdon, Oxon
pagerange: 35-52
book_title: World Yearbook of Education 2019 Comparative Methodology in an Era of Big Data and Global Networks
edition: 2
editors_name: Gorur, R
editors_name: Sellar, S
editors_name: Steiner-Khamsi, G
citation:        Oketch, MO;      (2019)    Randomized Control Trials: Limitations for Explaining and Improving Learning Outcomes.                    In: Gorur, R and Sellar, S and Steiner-Khamsi, G, (eds.) World Yearbook of Education 2019 Comparative Methodology in an Era of Big Data and Global Networks. (pp. 35-52).   Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon.       Green open access   
 
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