Who Cares about Using Education Research in Policy and Practice?
Strengthening Research Engagement
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Across the OECD, enormous effort and investment has been made to reinforce the quality, production and use of education research in policy and practice. Despite this, using research in education remains a challenge for many countries and systems. The OECD launched the Strengthening the Impact of Education Research project to respond to this challenge.
This publication reports on the first phase of the project. It maps the various structures, processes, actors and relationships that reinforce the quality, production and use of education research in policy and practice. The publication brings together leading experts who provide insights into recent research and international experience gathered from both policy and practice, including from other sectors such as health, agriculture and environment.
The publication provides a first set of analyses of data collected from over 30 systems through an OECD survey. It describes the mechanisms used to facilitate research use in education policy and practice, and the levels of engagement of various actors in these processes. By mapping the drivers of, and barriers to, using research systematically and at scale, the publication sets out an agenda for future inquiry. It can be a resource for policy makers, educational leaders, teachers and the research community.
Facilitating research use: Scary Barriers (and Super Mechanisms)
This chapter presents the results of the OECD Strengthening the Impact of Education Research policy survey with regard to the various mechanisms countries are using to facilitate research use. It presents a framework for classifying factors that influence research use, based on a review of literature. It then describes and contrasts mechanisms and barriers reported by the 37 survey-participating education systems. The chapter concludes by noting the importance of system-level coordination of the various mechanisms and research production.
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