Index

Chris Brown (School of Education and Childhood Studies, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)

Achieving Evidenceinformed Policy and Practice in Education

ISBN: 978-1-78743-641-1, eISBN: 978-1-78743-640-4

Publication date: 13 November 2017

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Brown, C. (2017), "Index", Achieving Evidenceinformed Policy and Practice in Education, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 193-197. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-640-420171001

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INDEX

Aquinas, Thomas
, 189

Assessment for learning (AfL)
, 94

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
, 93

Becker, Gary
, 24

Blower, Christine
, 131

Blunkett, David
, 167

Chestnut Church of England Learning Federation, case study of
, 46–48, 61–63

analysis and findings
, 49–54

Baudrillardian semiotic domains of consumption
, 49, 53–54, 56

characteristics of respondents
, 49

CR +  /PR + quadrant, responses within
, 54–56

CR +  /PR – quadrant, responses within
, 56–58

CR–/PR + quadrant, responses within
, 58–61

CR–/PR – quadrant, responses within
, 61

enquiry mindset of participants
, 55

improvement plan objectives
, 47

interview data
, 54

model for evidence-use
, 47

research focus
, 48–49

semi-structured in-depth interviews
, 48

Civil Service Reform Plan
, 2012, 157

Collaborative orientation
, 55, 57

Communicative action, theory of
, 116

Cultural and practical rational aspects of EIPr

pre-intervention survey questions on research use
, 49

research questions
, 48

semiotic perspective
, 46–49

Cultural rationality
, 26–28

Dreyfus model of learning
, 162

Economic and Social Research Council
, 93

Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
, 65, 71–72, 184

Elementary and Secondary Education Act
, 2001, 167

Engagement with evidence
, 171–174

Evidence informed
, 68

Evidence-informed, school led self-improvement (EISI)
, 66

Evidence-informed policy and practice (EIPP) in education

implications for achieving

complexity
, 179–182

effective learning
, 182

trust and networked social relations
, 182–184

measuring
, 188–189

Evidence Informed Policy in Education in Europe (EIPEE) project
, 157

Evidence-informed practice (EIPr)
, 23, 89

a priori position of
, 23

assumptions in
, 159–161

beneficial outcomes
, 23–24

cost effectiveness of
, 24–25

high awareness/low take-up of
, 26

notion of optimal rational behaviour
, 28–29

analysis and findings
, 35–39

practitioners’ beliefs and behaviours in relation to
, 30

predictive models
, 35–39

self-reported behaviours in relation to
, 29–35

optimal rationality (OR) aspects of
, 26–28

substantive critique of
, 26

teaching and learning activity
, 25

Evidence ‘misuse,’
, 108–132

definition of
, 130

effects of
, 130

occurrence of
, 129

as a strategic discursive position
, 128

Excellence Together TSA, study of
, 89, 94

collaborative aspect of Joint Practice Development (JPD)
, 98

cycle of enquiry approach
, 96

four workshop approach
, 96–97

learning about leading change
, 99

participants
, 94–95

processes of knowledge creation
, 96–98

trialling and refining research-informed interventions
, 98

Expertise, concept of
, 161–163

in evidence-informed policy-making
, 169–170

as learning
, 166–169

in policy development
, 164–165

Explicit knowledge
, 161, 163, 170

Feedback
, 25

Flyvbjerg, Bent
, 161–162, 166

Foucault, Michel
, 116, 118–119

truth
, 119

Free schools
, 66

Gibb, Nick
, 131

Gove, Michael
, 131, 167

Gradient Boosted Tree (GBT) predictive model
, 24

Habermas, Jürgen
, 116

civic life
, 116

decision-making
, 117

model for democracy
, 117

mutual agreement and discursive validity
, 116

power and policy development
, 116–118

Hobbes, Thomas
, 117

Instructional leadership
, 67

Knott and Wildavsky scale
, 159

Knowledge adoption, conceptualization of
, 135

analysis and findings
, 148–151

complexity of
, 144

concept of evidence-informed policy
, 148

as a contextually specific social process
, 151

description of models
, 137–138

criticism of
, 138–140

face validity of
, 147

‘how’ of
, 147

internal and external
, 141–148

literature review
, 136–137

policy preference factors
, 141–148, 149

research focus
, 135–136

as social action
, 140–141

Knowledge conversation
, 170

Knowledge transfer
, 137

Knowledge transfer project
, 93

Learning conversations
, 55, 57

London Centre for Leadership in Learning
, 72

Machiavelli, Niccolò
, 118

Making Policy Happen programme
, 158

‘Mode 2’ knowledge
, 119–120

National Audit Office
, 25

National College for Teaching and School Leadership
, 93

National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) for school leaders
, 173

Networked learning conversations
, 55–56, 57

Networked social relations
, 182–183

Network orientation
, 55, 57, 60

No Child Left Behind Act
, 167

Oates, Tim
, 131

Optimal rationality (OR)
, 26–28

cultural rational position
, 27–28

practical rational position
, 27–28

Optimal rational position of EIPr

analysis and findings
, 35–39

practitioners’ beliefs and behaviours in relation to
, 30

predictive models
, 35–39

self-reported behaviours in relation to
, 29–35

Organisational culture
, 173

Organizational learning (OL)
, 65

access to and sharing of forms of social capital
, 69

challenges facing EISI
, 67–68

Phronetic expertise
, 161, 171

Policy agora
, 119–121, 169

analysis and findings
, 122–123

idea of evidence ‘misuse,’
, 108–132

implications
, 126–128

‘policy-ready’ marketization in action
, 124–126

research focus
, 121–122

Policy ‘enlightenment,’
, 106

Policy learning communities
, 170

‘Policy ready’ knowledge
, 171

‘Policy-ready’ marketization in action
, 124–126

Pollard, Andrew
, 131

Practical knowledge
, 170

Practical rationality
, 26–28

Professional Skills for Government (PSG)
, 172

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
, 167–168

Rational Choice Theory (RCT)
, 24–26

in improving teaching activity
, 24

ResearchED
, 29

Research-informed guidelines interventions and programmes
, 184–188

Research Learning Communities (RLCs)
, 89

importance of school leadership for delivering change
, 92–93

knowledge creation activity within
, 91

learning and practical application
, 91–92

new practices and innovations
, 93

origins of
, 90–91

in practice
, 94–108

research focus

analysis and findings
, 102–108

effectiveness of RLC approach and activities
, 106–107

helping participants engage with research
, 99

impact on teaching practice
, 106–108

participants’ opinions on
, 100

student outcomes result from EIPr
, 101–102

teacher engagement with the EIPr strategies
, 105–106

RLC project
, 65, 83

Restorative justice
, 121

School improvement strategies

importance of trust
, 69–71

interpersonal relationships and
, 68–69

role of school leaders in fostering
, 68

organizational learning (OL)

access to and sharing of forms of social capital
, 69

challenges facing EISI
, 67–68

quality and structure of social ties and
, 72

research focus
, 71–78

analysis and findings
, 78–80

detail on the survey scales
, 74–76

intervention and control groups
, 72–74

network sociograms
, 82–83

normalized degree centralities
, 77

relationship between aspects of research-informed self-improvement, social networks
, 72

relationships between RE-USE climate and OL, trust and TLE degree centralities
, 80–82

Self-improvement
, 65

four-core criteria for
, 66

‘transformational’ and ‘learning centred’ aspects of
, 67

by trust
, 69–71

Self-improving school-led school system
, 66, 173

Semiotics
, 46, 48–49

Social Activity Method
, 140–141

Social capital
, 68

Social Network Analysis
, 65

Social relationships
, 68

Tacit knowledge and perspectives
, 161, 163–164

externalisation of
, 170

Teachers’ perceptions of research use

semiotic perspective
, 46, 49

see also Chestnut Church of England Learning Federation, case study of

Teaching and learning activity
, 24–26

Teaching School Alliance
, 39

Teaching school alliance (TSA)
, 89, 94

Teachmeets
, 29

Theories of Action (ToAs)
, 184

Top-down performance management
, 173

Trust
, 69–71, 182–184

role of school leaders in facilitating
, 70

Trustworthiness
, 61

Twigg, Stephen
, 131

UCINET software program
, 77

Wellbeing
, 27

What Works Network
, 157, 184