Evidence-based Policy: Rhetoric and Reality

Angela Packwood

doi:10.1017/S1474746402003111

Abstract

The drive in the late 1990s for an evidence-based approach to both policy and practice throughout public services has been encoded in a range of articles, operationalised in funded organisations, and implemented through government policy. This paper intends to review some of those articles, organizations and education policies to give an overview of the way in which the approach has been constructed and to make problematic some of the underlying assumptions.

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