---
id: "worksheets:exercise/evidence-bootcamp"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Run an Evidence Bootcamp"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/evidence-bootcamp"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Remember that to scavenge for or evaluate evidence, you might want to enlist some help. The UK College of Policing set up an “Evidence Boot Camp” to..."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Run an Evidence Bootcamp

Exercise group: Fast Field Scanning · Recommended exercise

## About this worksheet

Remember that to scavenge for or evaluate evidence, you might want to enlist some help. The UK College of Policing set up an “Evidence Boot Camp” to crowdsource review and evaluation of evidence. To do something similar, start with the following:Explain evidence-based policy makingTrain people in search strategies and skillsSort and divide up evidence to read and reviewDiscuss and deliberate about promising approaches

## Tips

Refer back to Smarter Crowdsourcing and wiki survey techniques in chapter 5 for methods.

## Questions

1. Whom will you invite?
2. When will you do it?
3. What is your plan for the event?

## Source

Solving Public Problems, Chapter 8, p. 248

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/8448eb1f-5244-466c-98ec-529937cc1bda

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