Educational trials
Wyse D, Torgerson C.
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D Wyse, C Torgerson - British Educational Research Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… The similarity of the criticisms of educational research made by both Hargreaves and Goldacre, alluded to earlier in this paper, seemed to indicate that little had changed in relation to the nature of educational research; however, the evidence...
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Wyse, D., & Torgerson, C. (2017). Experimental trials and ‘what works?’in education: The case of grammar for writing. British Educational Research Journal, 43(6), 1019-1047.
Wyse, Dominic, and Carole Torgerson. "Experimental trials and ‘what works?’in education: The case of grammar for writing." British Educational Research Journal 43.6 (2017): 1019-1047.
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Torgerson CJ, Torgerson DJ.
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CJ Torgerson, DJ Torgerson - Education Matters, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
… Of the recent trials, many have tended to be linked to a health issue within education and … and to call for educational researchers to rediscover this method and undertake more trials. … To avoid these problems pragmatic...
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Torgerson, C. J., & Torgerson, D. J. (2012). The need for randomised controlled trials in educational research. In Education Matters (pp. 221-232). Routledge.
Torgerson, Carole J., and David J. Torgerson. "The need for randomised controlled trials in educational research." Education Matters. Routledge, 2012. 221-232.
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Educational trials
Torgerson CJ, Torgerson DJ, Birks YF.
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CJ Torgerson, DJ Torgerson, YF Birks… - British Educational …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… trials have shown that a significant proportion have methodological flaws. Whether or not educational trials have a similar proportion of poor-quality trials … The authors undertook a methodological comparison between health care and educational trials published since 1990....
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Torgerson, C. J., Torgerson, D. J., Birks, Y. F., & Porthouse, J. (2005). A comparison of randomised controlled trials in health and education. British Educational Research Journal, 31(6), 761-785.
Torgerson, Carole J., et al. "A comparison of randomised controlled trials in health and education." British Educational Research Journal 31.6 (2005): 761-785.
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Educational trials
Torgerson DJ, Torgerson CJ.
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DJ Torgerson, CJ Torgerson - British journal of educational …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… trials and describe methods of how to avoid them. Further, by using examples from both the educational and health fields we will demonstrate how the rigour of trials … been reported in the educational literature on trials it...
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Torgerson, D. J., & Torgerson, C. J. (2003). Avoiding bias in randomised controlled trials in educational research. British journal of educational studies, 51(1), 36-45.
Torgerson, David J., and Carole J. Torgerson. "Avoiding bias in randomised controlled trials in educational research." British journal of educational studies 51.1 (2003): 36-45.
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Educational trials
Torgerson DJ, Torgerson CJ.
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DJ Torgerson, CJ Torgerson - … Randomised Trials in Health, Education …, 2008 - Springer
… of evaluating educational interventions in school settings. In particular, he described how confounding could be avoided in educational trials if … Two of the first randomised trials of the twentieth century were undertaken in the 1930s in educational...
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Torgerson, D. J., & Torgerson, C. J. (2008). History of Controlled Trials. In Designing Randomised Trials in Health, Education and the Social Sciences (pp. 17-21). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Torgerson, David J., and Carole J. Torgerson. "History of Controlled Trials." Designing Randomised Trials in Health, Education and the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008. 17-21.
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Educational trials
Torgerson CJ, Torgerson DJ.
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CJ Torgerson, DJ Torgerson - Oxford Review of Education, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
… In this paper we describe some of the important aspects of trial methodology that educational researchers ought to consider when they design and undertake trials. Specifically, we describe the importance of systematic reviews, the need for a trial...
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Torgerson, C. J., & Torgerson, D. J. (2003). The design and conduct of randomised controlled trials in education: lessons from health care. Oxford Review of Education, 29(1), 67-80.
Torgerson, Carole J., and David J. Torgerson. "The design and conduct of randomised controlled trials in education: lessons from health care." Oxford Review of Education 29.1 (2003): 67-80.
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Educational trials
Torgerson CJ.
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CJ Torgerson, SE King, AJ Sowden - Educational Studies, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of unpaid volunteer classroom assistants is to give extra support to children learning to read. The impact of using volunteers to improve children's acquisition of reading skills is unknown. To assess whether volunteers are effective in improving...
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Torgerson, C. J., King, S. E., & Sowden, A. J. (2002). Do volunteers in schools help children learn to read? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Educational Studies, 28(4), 433-444.
Torgerson, Carole J., Sarah E. King, and Amanda J. Sowden. "Do volunteers in schools help children learn to read? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials." Educational Studies 28.4 (2002): 433-444.
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education interventions
Buckley H, Torgerson C.
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C Torgerson, H Ainsworth, H Buckley… - Education Endowment …, 2016 - ERIC
The Education Endowment Foundation funded the University of York and Durham University to evaluate the Affordable Maths Tuition intervention being delivered by Third Space …
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Torgerson, C., Ainsworth, H., Buckley, H., Hampden-Thompson, G., Hewitt, C., Humphry, D., ... & Torgerson, D. (2016). Affordable online maths tuition: evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation.
Torgerson, Carole, et al. "Affordable online maths tuition: evaluation report and executive summary." Education Endowment Foundation (2016).
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Torgerson CJ, Torgerson DJ.
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CJ Torgerson, DJ Torgerson - 2009 - brill.com
… educational settings, and therefore proposed that, for many educational trials, the key unit of allocation should not be the student, as in Walter’s trials, … to each other in terms of educational outcomes compared with the educational outcomes...
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Torgerson, C. J., & Torgerson, D. J. (2009). Randomized controlled trials in education research (pp. 71-82). Brill Sense.
Torgerson, Carole J., and David J. Torgerson. Randomized controlled trials in education research. Brill Sense, 2009.
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Educational trials
Torgerson CJ.
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CJ Torgerson - Education 3–13, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… These key methodological criteria developed for health care trials are readily applicable to educational trials as the essential principles are the same. As demonstrated here, it is possible to evaluate a widely-used intervention in a rigorous fashion and...
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Torgerson, C. J. (2009). Randomised controlled trials in education research: a case study of an individually randomised pragmatic trial. Education 3–13, 37(4), 313-321.
Torgerson, Carole J. "Randomised controlled trials in education research: a case study of an individually randomised pragmatic trial." Education 3–13 37.4 (2009): 313-321.
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Torgerson C.
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B Styles, C Torgerson - Educational Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… Fortunately, as Hedges and Schauer describe, the impact and influence of the key educational funder of trials in the USA – the … educational researchers will embrace experimental research design and use it appropriately to establish with scientific...
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Styles, B., & Torgerson, C. (2018). Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research–methodological debates, questions, challenges. Educational Research, 60(3), 255-264.
Styles, Ben, and Carole Torgerson. "Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research–methodological debates, questions, challenges." Educational Research 60.3 (2018): 255-264.
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Torgerson CJ, Torgerson DJ.
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CJ Torgerson, DJ Torgerson… - London: Educational …, 2013 - researchgate.net
… Many educational trials are small when classes or schools are the unit of randomisation. For … If educational outcome were affected by school size, which it might well be, we could not … Matched or paired randomisation is...
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Torgerson, C. J., Torgerson, D. J., & Director, Y. T. U. (2013). Randomised trials in education: An introductory handbook. London: Educational Endowment Foundation.
Torgerson, Carole J., David J. Torgerson, and York Trials Unit Director. "Randomised trials in education: An introductory handbook." London: Educational Endowment Foundation (2013).
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