Fox, Amy;
Savage, Robert;
Dawson, Anneka;
Gray, Helen;
Huxley, Clare;
(2025)
Reading Randomised Controlled Trials.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
In 2021-22 the Flexible Phonics reading intervention, a large-scale randomised controlled trial, took place in 118 schools in England and involved nearly 3,000 children. This study aimed to provide valuable insights into the success of largely school-based education trials. The Flexible Phonics trial proved to be not only an important experiment in improving children’s literacy, but a case study in which the methodology of single randomised controlled trials in education can be considered. Reading Randomised Controlled Trials investigates the complexities of conducting randomised controlled trials in the field of education and how they can be seen as a cultural activity. The book emphasises the human operations, decision-making, and actions that drive such trials, which are often overlooked in published reports. Through the case study of Flexible Phonics, the book highlights the key differences between scaled educational trials and other types of trials, such as pharmaceutical trials. The additional focus on early childhood literacy is of significant educational importance, particularly in the context of UK school partial closures in 2020 and 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Reading Randomised Controlled Trials is ultimately a unique resource on the implementation of randomised controlled trials in authentic school contexts and for the sustained improvement of practice in education.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reading Randomised Controlled Trials |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800082786 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800082786 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082786 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors, 2025 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc /4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Savage. R., Fox, A., Dawson, A., Gray, H. and Huxley, C. 2025. Reading Randomised Controlled Trials: Opening the book. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111 .9781800082786 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | randomised controlled trial, evaluation, education, phonics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205218 |
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