Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Evidence-Driven Policy and Practice in Education: Issues of Veracity in Quantitatively Based Research -- Issues with Evidence in Constructivist/Interpretivist Educational Research -- Exploring Types of Educational Action Research: Implications for Research Validity -- Narrative, Insight, and Effective Decision Making in Education -- Values, Virtues, and Human Capabilities: A Positive Perspective on Educational Improvement -- The Cartography of Success: Mapping the Education Data Terrain toward Ethical Practice for Continuous Improvement -- Learning Organisations and Their Relationship to Educational Improvement -- The Assessment Imperative: Evidence-Based Decision Making in Student Affairs -- Change and Improvement in Post-Secondary Education -- Decision Making and Problems of Evidence for Emerging Educational Technologies -- Epilogue: Evidence and the Research-Practice Gap in Education -- About the Contributors -- Index