Important new paper examining the appropriateness and limitations of using RCTs in education.
By Sam Sims @jakeanders Matthew Inglis, Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Ben Styles and Ben Weidmann
EconPapers: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how and when to use random assignment
By Sam Sims, Jake Anders, Matthew Inglis, Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Ben Styles and Ben Weidmann; Abstract: Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomised experiments with the goal of