Evidence-based Educational Policy Research: Some Questions

Drugs Research: An overview of evidence and questions for policy

In 2001 the Joseph Rowntree Foundation embarked upon a unique and challenging programme of research that explored the problem of illicit drugs in the UK. The research addressed many questions that were often too sensitive for the government to tackle. In many cases, these studies represented the first research on these issues and the policy implications have been far-reaching. The topics covere...

Evidence based policy or policy based evidence?

On Counting Sequences and Some Research Questions

A counting sequence is a list of all binary words of the same length. Counting sequences of any fixed odd Hamming distance between successive words (codewords) are discussed. Gray codes are examples of counting sequences having a single-bit change between neighboring codewords. We describe some results on Gray codes and highlight some research questions. The spectrum of bit changes or transitio...

Some research questions for computational transportation science

In this paper some research questions which potentially lie within the purview of the new discipline of Computational Transportation Science are presented. Some of these questions are no doubt old and jaded and some may rightly reside in a different research field (or be seen as engineering) but viable solutions to all of the issues presented are of vital importance to the efficacy of future tr...

Causal Inference in Educational Policy Research

With the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), attention has focused on the need for evidenced-based educational research, particularly educational policies and interventions that rest on what NCLB refers to as ”scientifically based research”. In practice, this focus on scientifically based educational research has translated into a preference for research studies based on the principles of r...