PSYC 3800 Final: PSYC3800 final.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3800
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Features that distinguish education change: the ways research evidence is incorporated into policy and practice. Rationale for use of evidence: more informed policy, higher quality decisions, more effective outcomes however not everyone agrees it is desirable. Universities are especially trying to include more research information on their websites, newsletters, etc. Government policy documents in many countries make explicit mention of the importance of research in formulating policy. Governments have also created and supported third party organizations dedicated to knowledge mobilization and many of these also support networks of different kinds. Although many researchers and research institutions still have no organized approach to making their work readily available. Issues and challenges: little empirical evidence on most of the issues, little is known about how practice organizations find, share and use research, etc. Lazarfeld stated it is hard to find a form of human behavior that has not already been observed somewhere. Just making things sound more complicated than they actually are.