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Evaluation research and policy making
In an era in which educational innovations come thick and fast, often on the crest of one wave after another of government policies and interventions, evaluation has to take to task any notion that quick fixes from interventions 'work' straightforwardly, or at all.
Research, evaluation, politics and policy making
Research, evaluation, politics and policy making
Evaluation and research are beset with issues of politics; they take place within a political environment, which might be a microenvironment.
The evaluator is embroiled in the action, built into a political process which concerns the distribution of power, i.e. the allocation of resources and the determination of goals, roles and tasks.
The researcher is free to select his questions, and to seek answers to them. The evaluator, on the other hand, must never fall into the error of answering questions which no one but he is asking.
Evaluators may have the power to control the operation of the evaluation project and may influence the brief given, whilst the sponsor.
Education pursues different fields of knowledge, many times very high expectations are expected to reach them, but they are not achieved, as it depends on the person who applies it, the results are determined.
Differences between Evaluation and Research
One Branch of research is called. Evaluative Research or Applied Research and Uses tools of research in the social sciences to provide answers to the effectiveness and effects. Called: Interrogated or Tested.
Smith and Glass (1987)
The researcher wants to advance the frontiers of knowledge of phenomenam to contribute to theory and to be agle to make generalization, and The researcher is motivated by a search of knowledge.
Evaluation must represent multiple sets of values and include data on these values and Is motivated by the need to solve problems.
Both research and evaluaton are concerned to produce information andto promote explanation and understanding, both of which are intimately concerned with politics with differences between them being more matters of degree and both can operate at different levels
Pawson
Pawson demonstrates clearly the dangers of making unequivocal claims on the basis of under-researched, over-interpreted, neglectful data and narrow enquiry, and he counsels caution in making simplistic claims.
To focus on the contexts, mechanism and outcomes of the intervention, is a complex, pragmatic and ongoing endeavor by Pawson.
Pawson notes that many interventions typically work and then don't work. This, he avers, is due in part to context, situations, perspectives, participants, circumstances and affinity to decision makers' agendas
Evaluation seeks to identify the contingencies and conditions surrounding a decision or intervention
Student Name: Edgar Sanum