Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice

Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice; Mustafa Yunus Eryaman & Barbara Schneider.- 1. Understanding Public Good in the Context of Evidence Discourse in Education; Mustafa Yunus Eryaman.- 2. Capturing the 'Evidence' and 'What Works' Agenda in Education: A truth regime and the art of manoeuvring floating signifiers; John Benedicto Krejsler.- 3. What is Evidence Required for and Who Generates That Evidence in the Finnish Educational System?; Hannele Niemi.- 4. Educational Policy in Spain: Between Political Bias and International Evidence; Gonzalo Jover, Enric Prats & Patricia Villamor.- 5. Defining How We Get From Research to Practice: A Model Framework for Schools; Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Allison E Karpyn, Kalyn McDonough & Katherine Tilley.- 6. Assessing Students' Growth in Mathematics and English Language in Singapore: The Practice, the Evidence and the Perceptions; Jonathan WP GOH, Ong Kim Lee & Hairon Salleh.- 7. Evidence Informed Innovation of Education in the Netherlands: Learning From Reforms; Theo Wubbels & Jan van Tartwijk.- 8. The Evidence Agenda: An International Perspective; Tracey Burns & Rien Rouw.- 9. School Principals and Evidence Use: Possibilities and Problems for Preparation and Practice; Jeffrey S. Brooks, Mark Rickinson & Jane Wilkinson.- 10. Guiding principles for evaluating evidence in education research; Sarah-Kathryn McDonald & Barbara Schneider.- 11. Evidence-based policy and practice in Turkish education system; Selahattin Turan & Derya Yilmaz Kiliçoglu.- Contributors.- Index.