The AllTrials initiative in medical research is sponsored by such organizations as the Cochrane Collaboration and PLoS and is intended to ensure that clinical trials reported in academic journals meet a certain standard of evidence: that the trial is designed before, not after, the research is conducted; that conflicts of interest are known; that the research is conducted under proper scientific and ethical guidelines; that the research is fully reported; and that submissions reflect all trials, not just those that were successful. As this editorial reports, researchers are not meeting this standard. I'm not sure whether there's a similar initiative in education with the Campbell Collaboration and research journals, but I can say that the research is similarly sub-standard. Now I have been (and still am) a critic of the narrowly defined range of what counts as 'research' in education, but I would agree that if you're going to present quantitative research 'evidence' for this or that intervention, you should do it properly.
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