The Fairy Godmother and her warts - Making the dream of evidence-based policy come true
The Fairy Godmother and her warts - Making the dream of evidence-based policy come true
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DOI：
10.1177/1098214007313742
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Gandhi, Allison G.
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作者：
Weiss, Carol H.;Murphy-Graham, Erin;Gandhi, Allison G.
评估者有时希望有一位仙女教母，让决策者在选择要实施的项目时注意评估结果。美国教育部几乎创造了这样一位仙女教母，它要求学区只有在其有效性得到“科学”证据支持的情况下才能选择药物滥用预防计划。经验显示了这种程序的优点（例如，减少了对 D.A.R.E. 的支持，评估发现这是不足的），但也有缺点（支持其他计划的评估证据有限，在某些情况下值得怀疑）。确定成功项目的联邦程序似乎存在偏见。此外，仙女教母忽视了当地教育工作者的专业判断，并没有采取任何措施来改善项目的因地制宜。尽管如此，赋予评估更大的影响力是提高决策合理性的一个有价值的方法。作者建议对其他机构用于实现类似目标的程序进行研究。
Evaluators sometimes wish for a Fairy Godmother who would make decision makers pay attention to evaluation findings when choosing programs to implement. The U.S. Department of Education came close to creating such a Fairy Godmother when it required school districts to choose drug abuse prevention programs only if their effectiveness was supported by "scientific" evidence. The experience showed advantages of such a procedure (e.g., reduction in support for D.A.R.E., which evaluation had found wanting) but also shortcomings (limited and in some cases questionable evaluation evidence in support of other programs). Federal procedures for identifying successful programs appeared biased. In addition, the Fairy Godmother discounted the professional judgment of local educators and did little to improve the fit of programs to local conditions. Nevertheless, giving evaluation more clout is a worthwhile way to increase the rationality of decision making. The authors recommend research on procedures used by other agencies to achieve similar aims.