Trials of Evidence-based Education

<p><em>The Trials of Evidence-based Education</em> explores the promise limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts. <br> <br>Providing a detailed look at the pros cons and areas for improvement in evidence-based policy and practice this book includes consideration of the following:</p><ul> <li>What is involved in a robust evaluation for education.</li> <li>The issues in conducting trials and how to assess the trustworthiness of research findings.</li> <li>New methods for the design conduct analysis and use of evidence from trials and examining their implications.</li> <li>What policy-makers head teachers and practitioners can learn from the evidence to inform practice.</li> </ul><p>In this well-structured and thoughtful text the results and implications of over 20 studies conducted by the authors are combined with a much larger number of studies from their systematic reviews and the implications are spelled out for the research community policy-makers schools wanting to run their own evaluations and for practitioners using evidence.</p>