방법 비교

	What Works Clearinghouse Standards	Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
분야	Education	실험설계
계열	Process / pipeline	Hypothesis test
기원 연도	2022	1948
창시자	Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education	James Lind (early precursor, 1747); modern formulation: Austin Bradford Hill & Medical Research Council (1948)
유형	Standards and procedures for assessing the causal credibility of education studies	Interventional comparative study
원전	What Works Clearinghouse. (2022). What Works Clearinghouse Procedures and Standards Handbook, Version 5.0. Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.	Schulz, K.F., Altman, D.G., Moher, D., for the CONSORT Group (2010). CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials. BMJ, 340, c332.
별칭	WWC Standards, WWC Evidence Standards, What Works Clearinghouse Review, WWC Study Rating	RCT, randomised controlled trial, clinical trial, Randomize Kontrollü Çalışma (RCT) Tasarımı
관련	3	7
요약	The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) standards are the protocol the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences uses to judge how much confidence an education study's findings deserve as causal evidence. They specify which designs can support causal claims, how to screen for threats such as attrition and confounding, and how to rate each study — Meets Standards Without Reservations, With Reservations, or Does Not Meet Standards — before synthesizing the body of evidence. The standards are a cornerstone of evidence-based education policy in the United States.	A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the gold standard experimental design in clinical and health research, in which participants are randomly allocated to a treatment group or a control group so that the effect of an intervention can be measured with the highest possible degree of internal validity. The modern parallel-group RCT was formalized by Austin Bradford Hill and the Medical Research Council in their landmark streptomycin trial of 1948, and its reporting is governed today by the CONSORT 2010 guidelines (Schulz et al., 2010).