This is a report on an empirical investigation into how many education projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) include a randomized controlled trial (RCT) when possible.
One fruitful avenue might be asking NSF people what regulatory barriers there are to carrying out RCTs in schools? Are there any IRB issues / procedures NSF has to follow that make this burdensome? ideas for reforming them, etc.
Reminds me of this gwern post: https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/1987-rossi
One fruitful avenue might be asking NSF people what regulatory barriers there are to carrying out RCTs in schools? Are there any IRB issues / procedures NSF has to follow that make this burdensome? ideas for reforming them, etc.