Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- evidence-based educational policy, research practice public good
- evidence-based approach in education
- evidence-informed educational policy
- scientific evidence for What Works and best practices
- public interest in policy, research and practice
- public policy, NCLB and every student succeeds act
- educational evaluation and measurement
- international student assessment, evidence and public good
- policymakers, administrators and evidence use
- PISA, TIMMS, OECD, Singapore, Finland
- public good and private interest in education
- knowledge economy, neoliberalism, private interest in education
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice
Editors: Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, Barbara Schneider
Series Title: Educational Governance Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58850-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58849-0Published: 03 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86491-4Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58850-6Published: 22 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-9548
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 220
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Higher Education