Analyzing Congressional Research Service Reports on Education: How is Information Used at Congress’s Think Tank?
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Paul G. Rubin, University of Utah; Jennifer B. Ayscue, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth M. Uzzell, North Carolina State University
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Project Citation:
Rubin, Paul G., Ayscue, Jennifer B., and Uzzell, Elizabeth M. Analyzing Congressional Research Service Reports on Education: How is Information Used at Congress’s Think Tank? Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E171961V2
Project Description
Summary:
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the
nonpartisan research and analytical arm of the U.S. Congress, and is physically
and structurally located within the Library of Congress. Despite the role of
CRS as a critical information provider and technical assistant to actors crafting
and implementing federal policy, CRS reports, which serve as a key mechanism of
information dissemination and influence by the organization, only became widely
available to the public following the adoption of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2018. This study uses content analysis to examine CRS’s
education-related reports from the 115th Congress to explore what sources are
directly and indirectly informing federal policymaking based on references in CRS
reports. Findings offer insights into research utilization in the federal
education policy process and contribute to the growing literature on
intermediary organizations and knowledge brokering.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Education Policy;
Research Utilization;
Qualitative Research;
Congressional Research Service;
Intermediary Organization;
Congress;
Policy;
Content Analysis
Time Period(s):
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1/3/2017 – 1/3/2019 (115th United States Congress)
Collection Date(s):
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3/2019 – 3/2019
Universe:
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Publicly available Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports from the 115th Congress indexed by CRS as related to "education."
Data Type(s):
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text
Collection Notes:
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Data collection was conducted manually and required downloading each individual file from the Congressional Research Service reports website (https://crsreports.congress.gov).
Methodology
Sampling:
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The Congressional Research Service released 1,842 reports during the 115th
U.S. Congress that were publicly available through their website at the time of
data collection in March 2019. 55 of these reports (2.98%) were indexed by CRS
as related to “education” and were included in this study. Note: since the time of data
collection, CRS has updated or archived several reports examined for this study
and currently indexes fewer reports related to “education” for the 115th
U.S. Congress.
Data Source:
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Congressional Research Service reports were retrieved from https://crsreports.congress.gov/.
Collection Mode(s):
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other
Unit(s) of Observation:
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Citation Sources in Congressional Research Service Reports
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