Knowledge grows as ideas are tested against each other.
Agreement is not resolved simply by naming concepts but in the
dialectical process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. There are
many echoes of these debates in The Evidence Book. The contributors
make claims for both practitioner wisdom and the voice of
experience. Against this is posed the authority of experimental
science and the randomized controlled trial.
The contributors are concerned, in their own ways, with
collecting, ranking, and analyzing evidence and using this to
deliver evaluations. As an expert group, they are aware that the
concept of evidence has been increasingly important in the last
decade. As with other concepts, it too often escapes precise
definition. Despite this, the growing importance of evidence has
been advocated with enthusiasm by supporters who see it as a way of
increasing the effectiveness and quality of decisions and of
professional life.
The willingness to engage in evidence-based policy and the
means to do so is heavily constrained by economic, political, and
cultural climates. This book is a marvelously comprehensive and
utterly unique treatise on evidence-based policy. It is a
wide-ranging contribution to the field of evaluation.
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