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Tag Archives: evidence-based policy
Apr 16 2013
Advocates of RCTs in education should look more closely at the differences between medical research and education research
Leave a commentTweet Neil Davies reflects on recent debates about randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and education research. While the renewed attention given to education is certainly welcome, the focus on RCTs has obscured the crucial differences between medical research and educational research, with the latter … Continue reading
Posted by: April 16, 2013
Tagged with: Department for Education, evidence-based policy, Goldacre, Gove, RCTs, research spending
Mar 23 2013
Evidence-based practice: why number-crunching tells only part of the story
Leave a commentTweet Rebecca Allen welcomes greater attention and government funding towards randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education. But further conversations are still needed on how best to design and implement these trials given diverse educational contexts and difficulties in gathering accurate data. The social science … Continue reading
Posted by: March 23, 2013
Tagged with: evidence-based policy, RCTs
Mar 14 2013
The current debate about ‘evidence centres’ obscures a broader transformation in how policy is evaluated
4 CommentsTweet The Government was widely praised for its recent commitment to establishing ‘evidence centres’ to evaluate the efficacy of social policy. However Will Davies argues that the enthusiasm for the empirical evaluation of policy outcomes is part of a broader shift … Continue reading
Posted by: March 14, 2013
Tagged with: evidence centres, evidence-based policy
Feb 2 2013
Making Science Public as a route to better evidence
1 CommentTweet It is widely accepted that scientific evidence should play a role in policy decisions, yet the form that this should or could take remains subject to intense debate. Warren Pearce and Sujatha Raman discuss how the Making Science Public project … Continue reading
Posted by: February 2, 2013
Tagged with: evidence based policy making, evidence-based policy, making science public, science policy
Nov 10 2012
I disagree that I disagree! There is room for more than one method of evidence in policymaking
Leave a commentTweet Academics should not get ‘bogged down’ in their perceptions of what methods of research government values. Kirsty Newman explains that when it comes to decision making in government, there is no universal preference for one form of research evidence over another. … Continue reading
Posted by: November 10, 2012
Tagged with: evidence-based policy, government, Impact
Oct 27 2012
Evidence alone is not enough: policymakers must be able to access relevant evidence if their policy is to work
1 CommentTweet It is not enough to look for evidence of a previous policy success. Jeremy Hardie and Nancy Cartwright argue that exactly what evidence is needed, and of what, is the key question that needs to be asked for making real evidence-based … Continue reading
Posted by: October 27, 2012
Tagged with: evidence-based policy, Jeremy Hardie, Nancy Cartwright
Sep 8 2012
How can we support the use of research in policy and practice across Europe?
Leave a commentTweet The most common approach to encourage use of academic research is to repackage or communicate it in different ways, but Caroline Kenny finds this strategy largely ineffective. She argues that across Europe, both researchers and policymakers can benefit from training in … Continue reading
Posted by: September 8, 2012
Tagged with: evidence-based policy, knowledge transfer
