Putting conclusions into practice
The engineering model assumes that research reports can be translated unproblematically into action. But, however they are presented to their eventual audiences, the latter will filter those findings through their own preconceptions, values and attitudes. In this sense, too, there is a parallel between policy research and policy implementation. In both cases 'text' is 'read' in an active way by highly differentiated audiences. Teachers, for example, will not simply react to research reports in an automatic way, but will selectively interpret them and decide to act, not to act or to change their practice in unpredictable ways.