The Medical Research Model: No Magic Formula.

The article focuses on the instructional programs that should go into the classroom. According to the author, choosing which resources and programs should go into the classroom is one of the most difficult tasks school leaders face. In the United Slates, the federal government has attempted to address this issue and to inject more rigor into the development and evaluation of instructional programs by inserting into the No Child Left Behind Act. Although there are many different ways to carry out a randomized assignment study, one of the cleanest is the medical model, in which health care professionals randomly assign individuals with a particular medical condition to one of two groups and then treat one group with an experimental drug and the other group with an inert placebo. The medical research model is powerful because it allows researchers to make strong statements about the impact that specific variables have on the outcomes they observe. This model has moved medicine, agriculture, and other fields forward. The author has also presented other paradigms on research in the article.