Evidence matters [electronic resource] : randomized trials in education research / Frederick Mosteller, Robert Boruch, editors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002.Description: viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 370/.7/2 21
LOC classification:
  • LB1028 .E95 2002eb
Contents:
Overview and new directions / Robert Boruch and Frederick Mosteller -- The politics of random assignment : implementing studies and affecting policy / Judith M. Gueron -- The importance of randomized field trials in education and related areas / Robert Boruch, Dorothy de Moya, and Brooke Snyder -- Resources, instruction, and research / David K. Cohen, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball -- Missing in practice? Development and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Education / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Objecting to the objections to using random assignment in educational research / Thomas D. Cook and Monique R. Payne -- Randomized field trials for policy evaluation : why not in education? / Gary Burtless -- What to do until the random assigner comes / Carol H. Weiss.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview and new directions / Robert Boruch and Frederick Mosteller -- The politics of random assignment : implementing studies and affecting policy / Judith M. Gueron -- The importance of randomized field trials in education and related areas / Robert Boruch, Dorothy de Moya, and Brooke Snyder -- Resources, instruction, and research / David K. Cohen, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball -- Missing in practice? Development and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Education / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Objecting to the objections to using random assignment in educational research / Thomas D. Cook and Monique R. Payne -- Randomized field trials for policy evaluation : why not in education? / Gary Burtless -- What to do until the random assigner comes / Carol H. Weiss.

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