Data associated with the manuscript "Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned?"

Data associated with the manuscript "Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned?"

This file should be read in conjunction with the Supplemental Materials, available at:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.3102/0013189X19832850

The data are in a one-row-per-outcome format.

Variables:

Funder: EEF/NCEE

Year: year the RCT was published

Type: type of RCT (as categorised by the EEF)

Level: school level of participants in the RCT

Topic: domain of outcome measure

ES: effect size found

CI_Low: lower end of the 95% CI around the ES

CI_Up: upper end of the 95% CI around the ES

CI_Width: width of the 95% CI around the ES

SED: SE of the ES

pvalue: p value associated with the ES

Sig: 1 if p<.05, 0 otherwise

MDES: minimum detectable effect size for the RCT

Strength: EEF padlock code

CostRCT: cost of the RCT, as reported by the EEF

CostPupil: cost per pupil of the intervention, as reported by the EEF

RandomRank: one randomly chosen outcome per trial

MaxRank: one outcome per trial, based on the highest effect size

OutcomeRank: the outcomes per trial as ordered in the report

Power: the power of the trial (see paper)