This is a question I've posed in these pages on a regular basis over the years. When 'evidence' involves test scores for a dozen students in a psych class at a mid-western U.S. university, it seems to be stretching the meaning of 'research' pretty thin. Moreover, "the outcomes of an investigation may be influenced by a number of factors, including: ontological perspective; the framing of the research questions; methodological approaches; analytical methods; researcher interpretation and the degree to which any funding body remains impartial." Indeed, the call for 'evidence-based' practices on the part of politicians seems pretty thin. On what basis do they assert such practices are not being used? "What universities need is a knowledge-rich government, not political polemic that does not even reach the baseline of the 'hierarchy of evidence'."
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