Evidence matters randomized trials in education research / [electronic resource] : Frederick Mosteller, Robert Boruch, editors. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002. - viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


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