Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui

"As this book makes abundantly clear, there is an awful lot of poorly designed, poorly evaluated research out there, and, as the authors put it, sometimes it can cause more harm than good: "ignoring such research is the most rational and safest thing to do"… If you are interested in conducting research, this is a great book."Hélène Galdin-O-Shea, Schools Week

• 1. Introduction: the state of education research 2. The changing incentives and infrastructure for robust evaluations 3. Problems, abuses and limitations in the conduct of trials 4. Assessing the trustworthiness of a research finding 5. In-depth evidence and process evaluations 6. A short sharp shock?: the transition to secondary school 7. What works for catch-up literacy and numeracy? 8. More of the same or radical changes to the way we teach? 9. Educating the whole person or just a cheap way to improve results? 10. What are the lessons for those concerned with robust evaluations?

Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui

"As this book makes abundantly clear, there is an awful lot of poorly designed, poorly evaluated research out there, and, as the authors put it, sometimes it can cause more harm than good: "ignoring such research is the most rational and safest thing to do"… If you are interested in conducting research, this is a great book."Hélène Galdin-O-Shea, Schools Week

• 1. Introduction: the state of education research 2. The changing incentives and infrastructure for robust evaluations 3. Problems, abuses and limitations in the conduct of trials 4. Assessing the trustworthiness of a research finding 5. In-depth evidence and process evaluations 6. A short sharp shock?: the transition to secondary school 7. What works for catch-up literacy and numeracy? 8. More of the same or radical changes to the way we teach? 9. Educating the whole person or just a cheap way to improve results? 10. What are the lessons for those concerned with robust evaluations?

Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui

"As this book makes abundantly clear, there is an awful lot of poorly designed, poorly evaluated research out there, and, as the authors put it, sometimes it can cause more harm than good: "ignoring such research is the most rational and safest thing to do"… If you are interested in conducting research, this is a great book."Hélène Galdin-O-Shea, Schools Week

• 1. Introduction: the state of education research 2. The changing incentives and infrastructure for robust evaluations 3. Problems, abuses and limitations in the conduct of trials 4. Assessing the trustworthiness of a research finding 5. In-depth evidence and process evaluations 6. A short sharp shock?: the transition to secondary school 7. What works for catch-up literacy and numeracy? 8. More of the same or radical changes to the way we teach? 9. Educating the whole person or just a cheap way to improve results? 10. What are the lessons for those concerned with robust evaluations?