Strategic Stories: Analysis of Prior Learning Assessment Policy Narratives

Price, Monica Hatfield

doi:10.1353/rhe.2019.0005

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“…Second, while the NPF has previously been used to analyze policy narratives around charter schools (Ertas 2015), prior learning assessments in higher education (Price 2019), and narrative categorizations of evidence in student assessments (Schlaufer 2018), it has not been widely applied in the education policy domain. As NPF scholars work to understand the nuance of policy narratives in a diverse range of settings, education policy can provide an untapped market to test and evolve NPF concepts and hypotheses.…”

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What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice

Chang

Koebele

2020

Politics & Policy

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Policy actors use narratives strategically to attempt to influence the political contexts in which they participate. This study employs the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine policy actors' narratives around the issue of state‐level school choice policy. Specifically, we seek to determine why coalitions of policy actors use a narrative strategy called the devil‐angel shift. While traditional NPF hypotheses speculate that use of this strategy is driven by whether coalitions perceive themselves as policy winners or losers, recent studies suggest that use of this strategy may be better indicated by a coalition's policy position. To investigate this, we analyze legislative testimony related to two state‐level senate bills that sought to enact a universal school voucher program in Nevada. We find that a coalition's policy position better reflects their use of the devil‐angel shift narrative strategy over time, and we posit two potential explanations for the link between policy positions and narrative strategy. Related Articles Ertas, Nevbahar. 2015. “Policy Narratives and Public Opinion Concerning Charter Schools.” Politics & Policy 43 (3): 426‐451. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12120 Shanahan, Elizabeth A., Mark K. McBeth, and Paul L. Hathaway. 2011. “Narrative Policy Framework: The Influence of Media Policy Narrative on Public Opinion.” Politics & Policy 39 (3): 373‐400. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00295.x Smith‐Walter, Aaron, Holly L. Peterson, Michael D. Jones, and Ashley Nicole Reynolds Marshall. 2016. “Gun Stories: How Evidence Shapes Firearm Policy in the United States.” Politics & Policy 44 (6): 1053‐1088. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12187

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What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice

Chang

Koebele

2020

Politics & Policy

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“…NPF scholars have taken on this challenge, creating several new operationalizations of plot. For example, scholars have defined plot as the recognition of a policy problem (Lawlor & Crow, 2018; Price, 2019), the connection of these problems to their cause (Crow & Jones, 2018; Kuhlmann & Blum, 2021; Lawlor & Crow, 2018), beginning‐middle‐end stories (Boscarino, 2019; Honeck, 2018; Nisbett, 2017), and a two‐dimensional variable that analyzes policy outcomes and time elements (Ruff et al., 2022).…”

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Narrative spillover: A narrative policy framework analysis of critical race theory discourse at multiple levels

Bertrand,

Lyon,

Jacobsen

2023

Policy Studies Journal

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Narrative storytelling surrounds us. Narratives are especially salient in politics, as policy problems do not simply exist, but are actively created through the stories policy actors tell. Scholars introduced the narrative policy framework (NPF) to create a generalized framework for studying how policy actors use storytelling strategically to influence policy. We use the NPF to examine the recent rise of critical race theory (CRT) in policy debates. We demonstrate that increasing exposure to the ban‐CRT narrative plots led to greater support for a ban on CRT, particularly for White and Republican individuals. Finally, we introduce and test the concept of narrative spillover, which provides a new way of thinking about how micro, meso, and macro policy narratives interact to influence‐related political beliefs and macrolevel beliefs about institutions and culture.

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How narratives shape policy: Lessons learned from port projects adjacent to coral reefs in Florida and the Cayman Islands

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Dunning²,

Morris³

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Marine Policy

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Strategic Stories: Analysis of Prior Learning Assessment Policy Narratives

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice

What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice

Narrative spillover: A narrative policy framework analysis of critical race theory discourse at multiple levels

How narratives shape policy: Lessons learned from port projects adjacent to coral reefs in Florida and the Cayman Islands

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