Researchers Susan Payne Carter, Kyle Greenberg, and Michael Walker report intriguing but disquieting findings from a randomized
controlled classroom experiment conducted at West Point (for the in - the - weeds version of their study, check out the February 2017 Economics of Education Review).
West Point provides an ideal environment for conducting a randomized
controlled classroom experiment about Internet - connected computer usage for a number of reasons.
Historically, middle and high school students have learned science through lectures, textbooks,
controlled classroom experiments, or perhaps field trips — but these methods don't necessarily prepare students to thrive in the field.
Not exact matches
For instance, a 2010 National Bureau of Economic Research study concluded, on the basis of a
controlled experiment to compare online and face - to - face enrollment in a microeconomics course, that «much more experimentation is necessary before one can credibly declare that online education is peer to traditional live
classroom instruction, let alone superior....»
During the first four years of the CREATE study, researchers developed individual interventions and tested them in tightly
controlled experiments and randomized field trials with
classroom teachers in the middle grades.