Organizational Problem Solving and the Use of Research in Education Policy

组织问题解决和教育政策研究的应用

基本信息

批准号：
1827494
负责人：
Samuel Workman
金额：
$ 45.56万
依托单位：
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2022-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827494&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Organizational Problem Solving Use Research

项目摘要

This project addresses how organizations use a push and pull process to influence the provision and use of research in education policy in the United States. The pull effects of organizations shape the prevalence and types of research available across policy issues. Organizations tasked with problem solving in education vary in their propensity to solicit research for use in the policy-making process. Organizations also exhibit push effects on the use of research evidence, taking in the supply, and pushing this into resultant regulatory policies. Together, bureaucracies and interest groups synthesize research evidence and use it to shape resulting regulatory policies. In doing so, organizations filter the research used in crafting public policies. The project will enhance the basic understanding of how groups make arguments aimed at influencing public policy, and which groups are more likely to use research to bolster their arguments. The project will provide interest group and education issue profiles for the use of research in developing regulatory proposals in education. The study will generate insights that can subsequently inform strategies used by organizations and citizens hoping to shape regulatory policy decisions in education and other issues. The project will contribute significantly to student training in the process of social research at both the graduate and undergraduate levels by developing skills in working with data, analysis, presentation, and communication of research. The project is therefore in line with larger initiatives across university campuses to engage in skills development. Finally, the project will generate insights for interest groups, policymakers, and citizens hoping to influence education policy, and general lessons for impacting regulatory reform proposals.The project engages theoretical debates addressing how organizations channel attention to various issues, with a particular focus on how they use research evidence to channel that attention. Regulatory policy-making in education represents a flash-point for the importance of organizations, particularly given their conspicuous absence in two major strands of literature that converge in education regulations. The first is the study of the rule-making process. This literature largely focuses on the role of interest groups in shaping regulatory agendas, ignoring how bureaucracies, like USED, shape both regulatory agendas and the agendas of other actors. The second strand of literature is in education policy, where attention is disproportionately focused on legislation and educational outcomes, all but ignoring regulatory reform as a significant source of policy change. This project focuses on the institutionalized, structured, and transparent process of federal rule-making at USED. This process is unique from nearly all other modes of federal policy-making in that there is a policy proposal, followed by the opportunity for public commenting, then followed by the issuance of a revised regulatory policy. This process allows us to assess the extent to which organizations within USED shape the supply of research evidence from other actors, and in turn, examine how they incorporate research evidence into resultant regulatory policies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目介绍了组织如何利用推动和拉动过程来影响美国教育政策中的研究和使用。组织的拉力影响塑造了跨政策问题可用的研究率和类型。在教育中解决问题的组织在征求在决策过程中使用的研究的倾向有所不同。组织还对研究证据的使用，供应并将其推向由此产生的监管政策表现出推动影响。官僚机构和利益集团共同综合了研究证据，并将其用于塑造由此产生的监管政策。为此，组织过滤了制定公共政策的研究。该项目将增强对群体如何提出旨在影响公共政策的论点的基本理解，哪些群体更有可能利用研究来加强他们的论点。该项目将提供兴趣小组和教育问题概况，用于在开发教育方面的监管建议中使用研究。该研究将产生见解，随后可以为希望塑造教育和其他问题的监管政策决策的组织和公民使用的策略提供信息。该项目将通过发展研究，分析，演示和研究的能力，在研究生和本科水平的社会研究过程中为学生培训做出重大贡献。因此，该项目与整个大学校园的大型举措相符，以从事技能发展。最后，该项目将对希望影响教育政策的利益集团，政策制定者和公民产生见解，以及影响监管改革建议的一般教训。该项目参与了理论上的辩论，以解决组织如何将注意力引起各种问题的关注，并特别关注他们如何利用研究证据来引起人们的关注。教育中的监管政策制定代表了组织的重要性，特别是考虑到他们在两条融合教育法规的两大文献中的明显缺席。首先是对规则制定过程的研究。这些文献很大程度上集中于利益群体在塑造监管议程中的作用，而忽略了官僚机构如何塑造监管议程和其他行为者的议程。文学第二片是在教育政策中，关注不成比例地关注立法和教育成果，几乎无视监管改革作为政策变革的重要来源。该项目着重于所用的联邦规则制定的制度化，结构化和透明的过程。这个过程与几乎所有其他联邦政策制定方式都独有，因为有一项政策提案，其次是公开评论的机会，然后发布了修订后的监管政策。这一过程使我们能够评估使用中的组织在多大程度上塑造了其他参与者的研究证据的供应，然后检查他们如何将研究证据纳入由此产生的监管政策中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。