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Using evidence : how research can inform public services /

This book provides a timely and novel contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use. It builds on and complements the popular and best-selling What Works?: Evidence-based policy and practice in public services (Davies, Nutley and Smith, Policy Press, 2000), by drawing together current kno...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Nutley, Sandra M. (Autor), Walter, Isabel, 1972- (Autor), Davies, H. T. O. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; USING EVIDENCE; Contents; List of boxes, figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Using evidence
  • introducing the issues; 2. What does it mean to 'use' research evidence?; 3. What shapes the use of research?; 4. Descriptive models of the research impact process; 5. Improving the use of research: what's been tried and what might work?; 6. What can we learn from the literature on learning, knowledge management and the diffusion of innovations?; 7. Improving research use in practice contexts; 8. Improving research use in policy contexts.