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Evidence based policy and practice in higher education „The Bologna process and graduate career tracking system” Budapest, HUNGARY, 17/10/2011 – 21/10/2011 Gábor Halász ELTE University Budapest http://halaszg.ofi.hu. The origins …. The health sector and the „scientific method” in medicine
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Evidence based policy and practice in higher education„The Bologna process and graduate career tracking system”Budapest, HUNGARY, 17/10/2011 – 21/10/2011Gábor Halász ELTE University Budapesthttp://halaszg.ofi.hu
The origins… The health sector andthe „scientific method”in medicine Archie Cochrane(1909–1988) and the Cochrane Collaboration
Public responsibility, legal processes and scientific reliability • Public authorization and lawsuits (e.g. in drugs and food safety) • What is the basis of decisions? What counts as „evidence”?
Degrees of reliability Standards of evidence: (e.g. „U.S. Preventive Services Task Forcean NGO in the health sector)
Application in the education sector • Should interventions in the education sector be judged the same ways as in other sectors? • The evidence based movement in education • The OECD project onevidence in education
The evidence based approach: policy priority in the EU 2007 – The theme became a community priority under the German Presidency
The use of data at macro and micro level • Macro level: the use of data for national policymaking • Micro level: data-basedinstitutional level decision-making