Gough's weight-of-evidence framework

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The article adopts Gough's (2007) framework to gauge the strength of evidence identified through rapid reviews. As printed: "This includes seven quality parameters - transparency, accuracy, accessibility, specificity, purposivity, utility and propriety - used to rank studies and establish a weighted evidence base for the underlying assumptions behind a theory of change." In the case studies, studies were marked high, medium or low quality by two independent researchers applying these criteria.

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• Gough's weight-of-evidence framework with seven quality parameters for ranking studies: The article adopts Gough's (2007) framework to gauge the strength of evidence identified through rapid reviews. As printed: "This includes seven quality parameters - transparency, accuracy, accessibility, specificity, purposivity, utility and propriety - used to rank studies and establish a weighted evidence base for the underlying assumptions behind a theory of change." In the case studies, studies were marked high, medium or low quality by two independent researchers applying these criteria. (Natalia Kucirkova et al. (2026))

Claims

• In the I Can Read case, alignment with the Science of Reading was high for four of the five Big Ideas but low for Vocabulary, prompting revision of vocabulary activities [+M]

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Key Sources

• Natalia Kucirkova, Phil Vahey, David Patterson, David Dockterman. (2026). Expanding conceptual evidence-building with the science of learning: integrating evidence weights, alignment estimates and iterative updates for educational innovations. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10732-w

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title	Gough's weight-of-evidence framework
description	The article adopts Gough's (2007) framework to gauge the strength of evidence identified through rapid reviews.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-29
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