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Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice

  • Addresses interrelationships between educational research, policy and practice for the public good
  • Is timely in an era of globalization, efficiency, standardization, evidence-based decision making, testing, and accountability
  • Brings together researchers and policy makers from OECD, US, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, Australia, Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands

Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 6)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
  2. Educational Policy in Spain: Between Political Bias and International Evidence

    • Gonzalo Jover, Enric Prats, Patricia Villamor
    Pages 63-78
  3. Defining How We Get from Research to Practice: A Model Framework for Schools

    • Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Allison E. Karpyn, Kalyn McDonough, Katherine Tilley
    Pages 79-95
  4. School Principals and Evidence Use: Possibilities and Problems for Preparation and Practice

    • Jeffrey S. Brooks, Mark Rickinson, Jane Wilkinson
    Pages 159-174
  5. Guiding Principles for Evaluating Evidence in Education Research

    • Sarah Kay McDonald, Barbara Schneider
    Pages 175-197
  6. Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Turkish Education System

    • Selahattin Turan, Derya Yılmaz Kılıçoğlu
    Pages 199-216
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 217-220

About this book

This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good. It presents a range of conceptions of the evidence-based and evidence-informed education and a justification for why the particular examples or issues chosen fit within that conception for the sake of public good. It explores the current literature on evidence-based and evidence-informed educational policy, research and practice, and introduces a new term, ‘evidence free’, meaning actions of some policymakers who disregard or misuse evidence for their own agenda.

The demands about the quality and relevance of educational research to inform the policy and practice have been growing over the past decade in response to the Evidence-Based Education movement. However the literature is yet to tackle the question of the interrelationships between evidence, research, policy and practice in education for the public good in an international context. This book fills that gap.



Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Education, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey

    Mustafa Yunus Eryaman

  • College of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Barbara Schneider

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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