Building evidence into education

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Language/s: English

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Target Audience: Self-directed learning

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Short Description:

Ben Goldacre explains why appropriate infrastructure is need to do clinical trials of sufficient rigour and size to yield reliable results.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-6 Expert opinion is not always right
• 2-1 Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects
• 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar
• 2-3 Peoples' outcomes should be analyzed in their original groups
• 2-5 People should not know which treatment they get
• 2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
• 2-14 Average measures of effects can be misleading
• 3-1 Do the outcomes measured matter to you?
• 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

Details

Ben Goldacre, March 2013

I think there is a huge prize waiting to be claimed by teachers. By collecting better evidence about what works best, and establishing a culture where this evidence is used as a matter of routine, we can improve outcomes for children, and increase professional independence.

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