Event: The Promise and Challenge of Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
On July 6 from 2 – 3:30 p.m., CLASP will host a timely discussion that
will explore the different types of evidence policymakers and
practitioners have available to them, including theoretical research;
administrative or management data; impact studies, such as randomized
controlled trials and quasi-experimental designs; and implementation
studies, and then examine which types of evidence best inform differing
policy and practice choices.
In many instances, the particular evidence policymakers and
practitioners need for a particular decision doesn’t yet exist or is in
development. What should they do then? How can they still make evidence a
cornerstone of policy or practice? How do policymakers and
practitioners continue to fuel innovation and build new evidence, even
as they improve existing evidence in a given area? Ultimately policy and
practice decisions reflect a nation’s, a state’s or a community’s
priorities. To what extent can and should evidence inform such
prioritization? These questions and more will be addressed by the
expert panel, with particular attention paid to low-income populations
and communities.
