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Kaitlyn G. Fitzgerald; Elizabeth Tipton – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
This article presents methods for using extant data to improve the properties of estimators of the standardized mean difference (SMD) effect size. Because samples recruited into education research studies are often more homogeneous than the populations of policy interest, the variation in educational outcomes can be smaller in these samples than…
Descriptors: Data Use, Computation, Effect Size, Meta Analysis
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Courtenay A. Barrett; Mark Prendergast – School Psychology International, 2025
In Ireland, as elsewhere, there has been growing recognition around the importance of using research evidence to inform educational policy and practice at both a national government and individual school level. Despite such importance, there is currently a dearth of empirical, peer-reviewed studies regarding the use of research evidence in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Information Dissemination, Research Utilization
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Louise Shaxson; Rick Hood; Annette Boaz; Brian Head – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2025
Background: Knowledge brokering plays an important role in the evidence-to-policy system, but little is known about whether and how it occurs within government departments. Aims and objectives: Using empirical evidence from one UK government department, this article analyses how knowledge brokering takes place inside the policy making process and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Evidence