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Systematic Reviews Methodology

E Check: commissioning better research syntheses. Sally Redman

Is phonics instruction effective? Evidence from a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Carole Torgerson

Research & Evaluation Methods

Developing a typology of reviews to inform policy and practice use of systematic research synthesis.  David Gough

 

Design Networks for the evaluation of Policy Interventions under experimental conditionsAna Maria Madrigal

 

Crime Reduction: What Works? How do we know? Are we sure?  Paul Marchant

Immigration; integration; evidence - On Danish Official Statistics and Immigration policies. Esther Boolsen

The Application of the 'Theory Of Change' (ToC) Methodology in the Evaluation of Full Service Extended Schools (FSES).  Liz Todd

 

The impact of a family focused early intervention on the cognitive development of young children: evidence from a local evaluation. Maria Evangelou

 

Assessing Pupils’ Progress in English. Gerry Swain

 

Research Utilization

Alternative Conceptions of Data Use in North American Research on Policy Making and Management: A Discourse about Methods since 1990.  Darryl Hunter

The Role of Assessment Evidence in the Micro- and Macro-Political Spheres of Canadian Education.  Darryl Hunter

Promoting regional improvements in mathematics, science, and technology education through an evidentiary approach: One foundation’s experience.  Dennis Cheek

 

Education Indicators

Variation in girls' and boys' sense of belonging in single-sex and coeducational secondary schools.   Peter Daly

Moving home and changing school - widening the concept of pupil mobility.  David Ewens

Drugs – Indicators

Building an indicator system around the French young cannabis users' services programme.  Ivana Obradovic

Neighbourhood indicators for local service delivery.  David Ashby

 

Applying the Washington Circle Performance Indicators to Publicly-Funded Substance Abuse Services for Adolescents.  Robert Saunders

 

Health Indicators

Indicator systems in policy making: Identification of evidence-based indicators of the social determinants of coronary heart disease (CHD) and common mental disorder (CMD).  Nina Parry-Langdon

 

Measuring pre-hospital response time and A & E department performance in Norway to improve quality.  Ingvild Gulbrandsen

Emergency Department Use by Children with Behavioral Health Problems: An Application of Administrative Data Measures of Service System Quality.  Robert Saunders

 

Evidence, Policy and Change

Foresight: the place of social science in examining the future of transport.  Glenn Lyons

 

"We told you so!  - Who tells whom so?"  Ben Cosin

 

Evidence-based Policy and Evidence-based Politics: State Structures of Implementation and its Insertion in the Political Sphere.  Teresa Bracho

 

Communicating Evidence to Influence Policy - Rules of Engagement.  Marie-Anik Gagne

 

Qualitative Research

Improving Police Probationer Training Through an Evidence-Based Democratic Research Process.  John Davies

 

What may advance or hamper economic growth in ordinary Norwegian businesses and how to go about finding it?  Sjur Eigil Dahl

 

Using historical evidence to inform social policy implementation. Sara Mallinson

Evidence and Policy

Evidence and policy in adult learning.  John Bynner

 

From research to policy: implementation demands professional development.  Philip Adey

Evidence, adoption and diffusion. The UK's emerging telecare programme.  Jane Hendy

Evidence-based public health: the role of NICE guidance.  Amanda Killoran

 

Policing – Indicators

Measuring police productivity: using BCU level data to assess the efficiency of police resource allocation.  Kevin Marsh

The Effect of Police on Property Crime in Finnish Jurisdictional Districts.  Ville Vehkasalo

 

The challenges of delivering policy-relevant criminal justice evidence in post-devolution Scotland.  Mark Connelly

 

Symposium

Trajectory metrics and quasi-experimental design in education evaluation: CMI's Assessment Strategy.  William Lucas

 

The contribution of quasi-experimental design in the evaluation of enterprise education programmes.  Sarah Cooper

 

Comparative analysis of the predictors of entrepreneurial intent and self-efficacy of UK engineering undergraduates.  Donna Murray