Abstract

Theories regarding the long-term effects of educational interventions are often assumed, but rarely tested using experimental methods. In the following commentary, we argue that the shortage of randomized control trials with long-term follow-up presents serious problems for the field, as it hampers our ability to develop educational programs that produce long-lasting effects, and creates incentives for the research community to focus too much attention on short-run impacts. We presents steps that both researchers and funders could take to substantially improve the educational research literature by investing in educational experiments with long-term follow-up.

中文翻译：

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进一步瞄准：解决教育中高质量纵向研究的需求

摘要

关于教育干预的长期效果的理论经常被假定，但很少使用实验方法进行检验。在下面的评论中，我们认为缺乏长期随访的随机对照试验给该领域带来了严重问题，因为这阻碍了我们开发产生长期影响的教育计划的能力，并为研究提供了动力。社区过多地关注短期影响。我们提出了研究者和资助者都可以采取的步骤，通过对教育实验进行长期跟踪投资，从根本上改善教育研究文献。