Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice

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Autor(a) principal: Coalter, Fred
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i2.852
Resumo: This commentary reflects on my experience of compiling the Value of Sport Monitor—an on-line resource of policy-relevant, research on the social impacts of sport—for eight years. The commentary critically evaluates the assumption of the Value of Sport Monitor that social science research in sport is cumulative and it explores sports interest groups’ varying attitudes to the nature of evidence. It illustrates that widespread conceptual and methodological inconsistencies and weaknesses in research greatly reduce the ability to identify best practice and ‘best buys’ as a basis for policy. The commentary concludes by proposing that a way forward for research to contribute to policy and practice is via theory-based evaluation.
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title Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
spellingShingle Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
Coalter, Fred
evidence-based policy; methodological weaknesses, sports research; theory-based evaluation
title_short Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
title_full Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
title_fullStr Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
title_full_unstemmed Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
title_sort Sport and Social Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
author Coalter, Fred
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topic evidence-based policy; methodological weaknesses, sports research; theory-based evaluation
description This commentary reflects on my experience of compiling the Value of Sport Monitor—an on-line resource of policy-relevant, research on the social impacts of sport—for eight years. The commentary critically evaluates the assumption of the Value of Sport Monitor that social science research in sport is cumulative and it explores sports interest groups’ varying attitudes to the nature of evidence. It illustrates that widespread conceptual and methodological inconsistencies and weaknesses in research greatly reduce the ability to identify best practice and ‘best buys’ as a basis for policy. The commentary concludes by proposing that a way forward for research to contribute to policy and practice is via theory-based evaluation.
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