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Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration

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  • Anthony Petrosino

    (Center of Evaluation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and coordinator for the Campbell Crime and Justice Group)

  • Robert F. Boruch

    (University Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and cochair of the Campbell Collaboration Steering Group)

  • Haluk Soydan

    (Center for Evaluation at the Center for Evaluation, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare and a cochair of the Campbell Collaboration Steering Group)

  • Lorna Duggan

    (United Kingdom and reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration)

  • Julio Sanchez-Meca

    (University of Murcia in Spain and the director of the Unit for Meta-Analysis)

Abstract

Evidence-based policy has much to recommend it, but it also faces significant challenges. These challenges reside not only in the dilemmas faced by policy makers but also in the quality of the evaluation evidence. Some of these problems are most effectively addressed by rigorous syntheses of the literature known as systematic reviews. Other problems remain, including the range of quality in systematic reviews and their general failure to be updated in light of new evidence or disseminated beyond the research community. Based on the precedent established in health care by the international Cochrane Collaboration, the newly formed Campbell Collaboration will prepare, maintain, and make accessible systematic reviews of research on the effects of social and educational interventions. Through mechanisms such as rigorous quality control, electronic publication, and worldwide coverage of the literature, the Campbell Collaboration seeks to meet challenges posed by evidence-based policy.

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  • Anthony Petrosino & Robert F. Boruch & Haluk Soydan & Lorna Duggan & Julio Sanchez-Meca, 2001. "Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 578(1), pages 14-34, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:578:y:2001:i:1:p:14-34
    DOI: 10.1177/000271620157800102
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