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Use of the Means/Ends Test to Evaluate Public School Dress-Code Policies

Jane E. Workman* Cathryn M. Studak

Southern Illinois University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jworkman{at}siu.edu.


  Abstract
The purpose of this article is to explain how a means/ends test can be adapted for the school environment. Public school officials can use a means/ends test to document an analysis of whether dress-code policies will be effective in diminishing risks to the health, safety, or morality of the school population. Elements of policy evaluation--ends, means, and relations--and four main sources of information--authority, statistical or observational analysis, deduction, and sensitivity analysis--were used to illustrate how to analyze dress-code policies. Five components of good policy analysis--validity, usefulness, feasibility, originality, and importance--framed an evaluation of this approach.

First published on April 24, 2007
Educational Policy 2007, doi:10.1177/0895904806289208
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