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 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-based institutional level decision-making

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