Yes Minister, Yes Evidence
Structures and skills for better evidence use in education policy
Engaging with research, and ensuring research evidence is used well, is key to professionalising
education policy making processes, and ultimately to improving educational outcomes.
But the systematic use of evidence in policy making faces many challenges.
This policy brief draws on evidence from the OECD Strengthening the Impact of Education
Research project’s country learning seminars, as well as the project’s policy survey
that collected responses from ministries of education in 37 education systems from
29 countries. The project is based in the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and
Innovation (CERI). This brief presents a set of case studies on two questions:
• What human resource strategies can build individual and collective civil service
professionalism?
• What stable structures and mechanisms can contribute to the systematic and thoughtful
use of evidence in policy processes?
Published on April 05, 2024
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