Category: RCT – Randomized Control Trial

The winning team must minimally demonstrate its ability to (a) conduct an Randomized Control Trial (RCT) or Quasi-Experimental Design (QED) using any meaningful and substantive educational intervention, and (b) systematically replicate that experiment multiple times with distinct subgroups in a condensed time frame. While Teams will not be judged on the effectiveness of the intervention they are testing, the intervention cannot be trivial. Judges will have discretion to weight criteria, including, for example, the variability of learner populations and subgroups with which competitors conduct replications, the sample size competitors achieve, and other metrics.

The winning team must minimally demonstrate its ability to (a) conduct an Randomized Control Trial (RCT) or Quasi-Experimental Design (QED) using any meaningful and substantive educational intervention, and (b) systematically replicate that experiment multiple times with distinct subgroups in a condensed time frame. While Teams will not be judged on the effectiveness of the intervention they are testing, the intervention cannot be trivial. Judges will have discretion to weight criteria, including, for example, the variability of learner populations and subgroups with which competitors conduct replications, the sample size competitors achieve, and other metrics.


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