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Why RCTs aren't the simple answer to solving India's learning crisis -Martin Haus and Rakesh K Rajak

-TheWire.in

The problem with the domination of RCTs in development is the depreciation of other, more relevant findings using different methodologies.

This year’s Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to the three researchers Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, who are well-known for their field experiments in the form of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). But can that methodology make meaningful contributions to solving the problem of our schools failing our children? Can RCTs help us transform our government schools and thus solve the learning and equity crisis?

RCTs, in general, are useful for narrow optimisation or changes, and to make causal inferences, that is, to find out and prove what causes a change in outcomes in a specific context. For this, it is important that much stays the same. By tweaking one aspect, one reaches a scenario where business goes on as usual but with one change. This, then, allows us to quantify the impact of this one change, using treatment and control groups.

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