Volume 18, Numbers 1&2, 2004

Robert Coe

What Kind of Evidence does Government Need?.......1

Ann Oakley

The Researcher's Agenda for Evidence.......12

Phoebe Cottingham, Rebecca Maynard and Matthew Stagner

Synthesising Evidence on the Impacts of Programmes and Policies in Education, Crime and Justice, and Social Welfare: Practical Recommendations Based on 14 Test-bed Reviews.......28

Wynne Harlen and Ruth Deakin Crick

Opportunities and Challenges of Using Systematic Reviews of Research for Evidence-based Policy in Education.......54

Steve Hanney

Personal Interaction with Researchers or Detached Synthesis of the Evidence: Modelling the Health Policy Paradox .......72

Philip Adey

Evidence for Long-term Effects: Promises and Pitfalls.......83

Hester Hulpia and Martin Valcke

The Use of Performance Indicators in a School Improvement Policy: The Theoretical and Empirical Context.......102

Lewis Elton

Goodhart's Law and Performance Indicators in Higher Education.......120

Peter Daly and Neil Defty

Extension of Single-sex Public School Provision: Evidential Concerns.......129