The Evidence Book
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Þekking eykst þegar hugmyndir eru bornar saman og reyndar hver gegn annarri. Samkomulag næst ekki með því einu að nefna hugtök, heldur í díalektísku ferli kenningar, andkenningar og samruna. Í The Evidence Book enduróma margar þessara rökræðna. Höfundarnir færa rök bæði fyrir starfsreynslu fagfólks og mikilvægi reynsluraddarinnar. Gegn þessu tefla þeir fram kennivaldi tilraunavísinda og slembiraðaðra samanburðarrannsókna.
Höfundarnir fjalla, hver með sínum hætti, um söfnun, flokkun og greiningu gagna og hvernig þau eru nýtt við mat. Sem sérfræðingar gera þeir sér grein fyrir því að hugtakið gögn hefur fengið sífellt meira vægi á síðasta áratug. Líkt og mörg önnur hugtök er það þó oft ekki skilgreint með nægilega nákvæmum hætti. Þrátt fyrir það hafa stuðningsmenn aukinnar gagnanotkunar talað fyrir mikilvægi hennar af miklum ákafa og líta á hana sem leið til að auka skilvirkni og gæði ákvarðana og faglegs starfs.
Knowledge grows as ideas are tested against each other. Agreement is not resolved simply by naming concepts but in the dialectical process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. There are many echoes of these debates in The Evidence Book. The contributors make claims for both practitioner wisdom and the voice of experience. Against this is posed the authority of experimental science and the randomized controlled trial.The contributors are concerned, in their own ways, with collecting, ranking, and analyzing evidence and using this to deliver evaluations.
As an expert group, they are aware that the concept of evidence has been increasingly important in the last decade. As with other concepts, it too often escapes precise definition. Despite this, the growing importance of evidence has been advocated with enthusiasm by supporters who see it as a way of increasing the effectiveness and quality of decisions and of professional life.The willingness to engage in evidence-based policy and the means to do so is heavily constrained by economic, political, and cultural climates.
This book is a marvelously comprehensive and utterly unique treatise on evidence-based policy. It is a wide-ranging contribution to the field of evaluation.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781351298025
- 9781412845816
- ePub
- 1
- Olaf Rieper; Frans L. Leeuw; Tom Ling
- English
- 2017-09-08
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface by Ray Pawson
- 1. Introduction
- Part I Concepts and History of the Evidence Movement
- 2. On the Contemporary History of Experimental Evaluations and Its Relevance for Policy Making
- 3. Institutionalization of Second-Order Evidence-Producing Organizations
- Part II Generating Evidence
- 4. What Counts as “Sufficient Evidence” and a “Compelling Argument” in Evaluation?
- 5. Evaluative Evidence in Multi-Level Interventions: the Case of the Global Environment Facility
- 6. “User-Dependent” Knowledge as Evidence in Health Care
- Part III Using Evidence
- 7. Results Management: Can Results Evidence Gain a Foothold in the Public Sector?
- 8. Evidence and Politicians: Can the Two Co-exist?
- 9. Conclusion and Perspectives: Risks and Promises of the Evidence Movement
- Contributors
- Index