Open dialogue peer review: a response to Tymms, Merrell & Coe
McCartney, Elspeth and Ellis, Sue (2008) Open dialogue peer review: a response to Tymms, Merrell & Coe. The Psychology of Education Review, 32 (2). pp. 11-12. ISSN 1463-9807
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Abstract
We welcome Peter Tymms, Christine Merrell and Robert Coe's paper as a timely contribution to an important issue. For precisely the reasons that they state, this is an area of current concern. We are writing to suggest that for complex interventions involving educational programmes an even more complicated sequence of investigations could be useful, taking as the model the medical approach as detailed in MRC (2000). We agree that the RCT is an essential tool to investigate the efficacy of programmes. There is no other way to know if, on the whole, a programme works across a variety of contexts and if some programmes should 'work' better than others. Pragmatic randomisation as described in the Fife study outlined by Tymms et al. should be appropriate although it is a pity that it appears no children are continuing with their current exposure to peer learning, which would allow for the possibility that this is just as good as the new interventions. Blind assessment of outcomes is of course essential.
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McCartney, Elspeth and Ellis, Sue ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 27425 |
Keywords: | linguistics, language, reading, Special aspects of education, Philology. Linguistics |
Subjects: | Education > Special aspects of education Language and Literature > Philology. Linguistics |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Psychological Science and Health > Speech and Language Therapy Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education |
Depositing user: | Mr Alan Slevin |
Date deposited: | 09 Sep 2010 15:33 |
Last modified: | 18 Nov 2020 01:40 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/27425 |
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