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Randomized Field Trials (RFTs)

AIR designs and conducts large Randomized Field Trials (RFTs) on teacher professional development for reading and math, and interventions such as Thinking Reader software and Virtual Algebra. Further, AIR helped develop widely applied standards for the quality of RFTs under the What Works Clearinghouse, and incorporates those standards in AIR studies.

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Recent Reports

• A Framework for Understanding “Evidence” in Prevention Research and Programs

  This report provides a multidimensional framework for understanding the meaning of evidence in prevention science.

• Campbell Collaboration Bibliography of CRTs currently in C2-SPECTR

  Bibliography prepared for the Campbell Collaboration Briefing Conference on Place Randomized Trials in Education, Crime, Social Welfare, and Health.

• Random Assignment in Program Evaluation and Intervention Research: Questions and Answers

  This project was supported under contract number ED-01-C0-0039 (0002), as administered by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.