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| Author: | Foray, D. Murnane, R. Nelson, R. (eds.) |
| Title: | Randomized trials of education and medical practices: Strengths and limitations |
| Journal: | Economics of innovation and new technology
2007 : JUL-SEP, VOL. 16:5-6, p. 303-306 |
| Index terms: | education medicine research |
| Freeterms: | randomized experiments |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article introduces the contents of this Special issue (issue no:5) on 'Randomized trials of education and medical practices: Strengths and limitations'. The article contents of this issue is the following: "Improving the performance of the education sector: the valuable, challenging, and limited role of random assignment evaluations" by R.J. Murnane and R.R. Nelson ; "The need for pragmatic experimentation in educational research" by C.J. Torgerson and D.J. Torgerson ; "Randomized experiments in education: Assessing the objections to doing them" by T.D. Cook ; "On the role of randomized clinical trials in medicine" by M.C. Christensen (et al.) ; "When was random allocation first used to generate comparison groups in experiments to assess the effects of social interventions?" by L. Forsetlund, I. Chalmers and A. Bjorndal ; "Building the capacity to experiment in schools: A case study of the institute of educational sciences in the US department of education" by T.D. Cook and D. Foray. |
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