Appropriate Standards of Evidence for Education Policy Decision-Making. CEDR Policy Brief. No. 04032018-1-3

Autor/inn/en	Conaway, Carrie; Goldhaber, Dan
Institution	Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR)
Titel	Appropriate Standards of Evidence for Education Policy Decision-Making. CEDR Policy Brief. No. 04032018-1-3
Quelle	(2018), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Decision Making; Standards; Evidence; Reliability; Statistical Significance; Research Utilization; Context Effect; Risk + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Standard; Evidenz; Reliabilität; Forschungsumsetzung; Risiko
Abstract	A key job of education policymakers is to make decisions under uncertainty. They must weigh the risks, rewards, and costs of different interventions, policies, and mixes of resources, and make decisions even when the likely outcome is uncertain. How policymakers think about and deal with uncertainty has important implications for resource allocation, interventions, innovation, and the information that is provided to the public. In this policy brief the authors review the way uncertainty factors into different types of decisions and illustrate how the standard of evidence for making decisions can be quite inconsistently applied. The type of information available about uncertainty, the nature of the decisions to be made, and the broader context for the decision are all critical factors--and all ones that are commonly overlooked in the way research findings are reported, making it all the harder for policymakers to appropriately consider uncertainty in their decisions. The authors also argue that inconsistency in evaluating the probabilities of risks and rewards can lead to suboptimal decisions for students, in part because risks and rewards are often judged by how the adults in the system are affected more than how students are affected. Finally, the authors offer some suggestions for how policymakers might think about the level of confidence they need to make different types of decisions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01