Social Research-Getting It Right for Practitioners and Policy Makers, Final Report

摘要

The issue of better linking research to policy and practice appears to arise in most advanced democracies. Desautels (1997) reports from Canada, for example, that in searching for existing program evaluations to support the work of the Canadian Auditor General, 'in too many cases we are finding that no information--or no useful infomation--on results is available', and '... we were disappointed in the inability of evaluators to demonstrate the value added by their activities....the case for evaluation still needs to be made....Desautels'; comments raise the possibility that research and evaluation exercises are failing to influence policy and practice not because of a lack of interest on the part of the policy adviser or practitioner, but because the evaluations themselves are not delivering what these people need.