Regional Workshop : Evidence based Policy making | ERI SEE

9 - 10 November 2009, Vienna

The regional workshop on “Evidence Based Policy
Making" took place in Vienna on 9-10 November 2009 and was organised by
KulturKontakt Austria, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
Development and the Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe
in the framework of the Task Force Fostering and Building Human Capital
of the Regional Cooperation Council.

The International Conference on “Fostering and
Building Human Capital for Sustainable Knowledge Societies in South
Eastern Europe”, organised by the TFBHC (Bucharest, 6-7 March 2009),
highlighted the importance of evidence-based policy making in the field
of education. Further exchange of experience amongst policy makers on
effective approaches to evidence informed policy making has therefore
been included as one of the priorities of the action plan of the Task
Force.

This regional workshop on evidence based policy
making offered a platform to continue the discussion process initiated
in Bucharest. Taking research in current key areas of education
development as examples the workshop focused on the interaction between
educational research and policy development in order to enhance the
innovation capacity of education systems in the development towards
quality, equity and efficiency. The thematic focus was on teacher
evaluation (e.g. TALIS), the impact of external student assessment on
education systems and the impact of international studies (e.g. PISA).