Report Urges Use of Medical-Style Research in Education
The federal government can meet mandates to foster the use of "scientifically based research" in education by aggressively promoting randomized, controlled trials, a report released last week argues.
Commonly used in medicine and pharmacology, such trials entail the random assignment of subjects to either an experimental group or a comparison group. Such investigations are less common—and sometimes controversial—in education and some other social-science fields.
The report by the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy says that the federal government should make a concerted effort to sponsor more such studies in education and to prod states, schools, and districts to use the resulting findings. The coalition is sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government, a nonprofit,...
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