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Author(s): Dedering, Kathrin
Title: Evidence-based education policy: Lip service or common practice? Empirical findings from Germany
In: European Educational Research Journal, 8 (2009) 4, S. 484-496
DOI: 10.2304/eerj.2009.8.4.484
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2009.8.4.484
Publication Type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Aufsatz (keine besondere Kategorie)
Language: Englisch
Keywords: Bildungsforschung; Empirische Forschung; PISA-Studie; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsverwaltung; Rezeption; Daten; Nutzung; Schulpolitik; Landesministerium; Qualitative Forschung; Interview; Empirische Untersuchung; Deutschland
Abstract (english): Since the late 1990s, it has been the practice in Germany that decisions in educational policy and educational administration should primarily be subject to evidence in terms of reliable empirical data. However, little research has been conducted so far as to the question of how actors in charge receive and process the existing data, and how they use them in decision-making processes. In this article, new empirical findings are presented concerning the wayin which the reception and processing of educational scientific evidence is currently carried out. Moreover, differences in the use of data within the last decade are revealed. Relating to an explorative study that consists of 12qualitative interviews with ministerial personnel in four German school ministries, the findings generally indicate that evidence-based educational policy in Germany is less a matter of paying lip service, but rather increasinglybecoming common practice. On the whole, the findings indicate an increasing routine and a more professional treatment of the demands for processing data. All of the school ministries reveal approaches towards systematising the use of data. (DIPF/Orig.)
DIPF-Departments: Steuerung und Finanzierung des Bildungswesens