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Hanney, Steve – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2004
Personal interaction between health policy makers and researchers is widely seen as the key to enhancing research use, but there are also increasing demands that policies be based on syntheses of the available evidence. A potential paradox arises in that whilst interaction may result in greater use of the evidence it might also lead to a partial…
Descriptors: Researchers, Interaction, Public Policy, Synthesis
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Stivers, Patricia E. – Educational Researcher, 1976
Notes that whether or not the goal of achieving a clearer understanding of the relationships between science and policy is reached, a clearer understanding of the complexities of the relationship is emerging in the process. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Debate, Government Role, Interaction, Objectives
Gideonse, Hendrik D. – 1978
Three broad statements summarizing nine axioms underlie a conceptualization of the character of behavioral and social research: (1) social and behavioral science is inherently reflexive, (2) ethics and epistemology are inseparable, and (3) the inherent complexity of behavioral and social phenomena must be reflected in the models developed to guide…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Community Involvement, Educational Development, Educational Research