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Criteria for evaluating interventions
Author(s) -
Miles T. R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
dyslexia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-0909
pISSN - 1076-9242
DOI - 10.1002/dys.353
Subject(s) - gold standard (test) , psychological intervention , psychology , informed consent , medical education , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology
By common consent there is a ‘gold standard’ in reference to which the efficacy of medical interventions needs to be evaluated. It is suggested in this paper that in educational research achievement of this gold standard is rarely possible. It does not follow, however, that research that falls short of this standard is therefore valueless; there may be many different kinds of good (and less good) reasons for accepting particular conclusions. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.