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What can evidence-use in practice learn from evidence-use in policy?
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Background: This paper approaches evidence-informed practice from the perspective of evidence-informed policy-making. Using the findings of a recent study of evidence-use by educational policy-makers to raise questions about evidence-use by educational practitioners, it seeks to explore what such a study might tell us about how to understand and improve evidence-use by educational practitioners.Purpose: The paper aims, therefore, to identify potential connections, shared insights and common issues between evidence-use in policy and evidence-use in practice. It does this by focusing on two specific areas: the nature of the evidence (i.e. what evidence is used) and the nature of the use (i.e. how evidence is used). The paper outlines what was found about each of these aspects of evidence-use in policy, and then considers what questions and issues these findings might raise for evidence-use in educational practice.Sample: The empirical study on which this paper is based was an in-depth study of the use of evidence within educational policy development in Australia. It focused on the development of three specific education policies within one Australian state education department and involved interviews with 25 policy-makers who were actively involved in the development of these policies.Design and methods: The policy-based study involved the following data collection processes: (i) in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 policy-makers who were involved in the development of…
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“At this level, sense-making of standardised assessment data often plays an important role (Rickinson et al. 2017).”
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“While considerable attention has been paid to the use of data by school leaders and teachers, less attention has been paid to data use by policy-makers and by students.”
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“Concerns at this level that need to be addressed include the repeated use of similar sources, a focus on well-known sources, the use of sources that are familiar and comfortable, and the use of data that are easy to locate (Rickinson et al. 2017).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rickinson, M., de Bruin, K., Walsh, L., & Hall, M.
- Affiliations
- Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Research Office, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue
- Educational Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-04-03
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 173-189
- ISSN
- 0013-1881
- 1469-5847
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 35
- Language
- en
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