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List of contents
Introduction
Concepts and IssuesResearch Utilization: Why It's Important, Why It's an Issue, Why It's Difficult
What Do We Mean by Informed Policymaking?
Why Education Policies Are So Difficult to Inform
Approaches to Informing Policy for EducationUtilization as Using Pre-Cooked Conclusions
Utilization Stimulated by Providing Decision Makers with Data
Informing Policy by Constructing Knowledge
Case Studies of Use of Information in PolicymakingNamibia: Consultation for Change, the Etosha Conference
Conducting an Education Sector Assessment in Egypt
Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Honduras
Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Colombia
Conducting a Participatory Sector Assessment in El Salvador
Policy Dialogue as Organizational Learning in Paraguay
Fitting It All Together: A Model to Inform Policy with Research-based KnowledgeBibliography
Index
About the author
NOEL McGINN is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and Fellow (emeritus) at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He is coauthor (with R. G. King, R. Guerra, and D. Kline) of
The Provincial Universities of Mexico (Praeger, 1979), and coauthor (with F. Reimers) of
IInformed Dialogue: Using Research to Shape Education Policy Around the World (Praeger, 1997). He has published many other books and articles on education and development. He has advised governments, universities, and research centers and international agencies in 24 countries in all continents on issues of education policy. He was the principal investigator of Project BRIDGES, a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development to research the determinants of student achievement in developing countries.
