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Kaitlyn G. Fitzgerald; Elizabeth Tipton – Grantee Submission, 2022
As the body of scientific evidence about effective policies and practices grows, so does the need to effectively communicate that evidence to policy-makers and practitioners. Clearinghouses have emerged to facilitate the evidence-based decision-making process for education practitioners. While the results and methods for developing and analyzing…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Scientific Research, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making
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Kaitlyn G. Fitzgerald; Elizabeth Tipton – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
As the body of scientific evidence about effective policies and practices grows, so does the need to effectively communicate that evidence to policy-makers and practitioners. Clearinghouses have emerged to facilitate the evidence-based decision-making process for education practitioners. While the results and methods for developing and analyzing…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Scientific Research, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making
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Howell, Parker S.; Howell, Scott L. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2018
The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has available for research a large data warehouse of enrollment and graduation information from 1993 to the present for nearly all postsecondary students in the United States. In this most recent academic year, 18 million currently enrolled students alone were added to the database. Some of the following…
Descriptors: Databases, Clearinghouses, Strategic Planning, Marketing
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
The "Knowledge Is Power Program" ("KIPP") is a nonprofit network of more than 200 public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified four studies of "KIPP" that fall within the scope of the Charter Schools topic area and meet…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Intervention, Charter Schools, Mathematics Achievement
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Imel, Susan – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2016
Susan Imel is retired from Ohio State University. From December 1981 until December 2003, she was the Adult Education Specialist at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education and Director from 1987 through 2003. This essay begins with a brief overview of the ERIC system including goals for the clearinghouses, followed by a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Databases, Clearinghouses, Career Education
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Littell, Julia H.; White, Howard – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
In this article, we trace the development of the Campbell Collaboration and its renewed efforts to build a world library of accurate, synthesized evidence to inform policy and practice and improve human well-being worldwide. Campbell systematic reviews and related evidence synthesis products provide unbiased summaries of entire bodies of empirical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Partnerships in Education, Synthesis, Literature Reviews
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Munter, Charles; Cobb, Paul; Shekell, Calli – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
We examined the extent to which mathematics program evaluations that have been conducted according to methodologically rigorous standards have attended to the theories underlying the programs being evaluated. Our analysis focused on the 37 reports of K-12 mathematics program evaluations in the last two decades that have met standards for inclusion…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Clearinghouses, Standards, Mathematics Education
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Seftor, Neil; Monahan, Shannon; McCutcheon, AnnaMaria – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is a central and trusted source of information of scientific evidence for what works in education. Towards that end, the WWC summarizes research on a range of practices, programs, and policies (interventions) and disseminates that research in a variety of forms on the free public website. In recent years, the WWC…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Federal Programs, Educational Research, Decision Making
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Levinsson, Magnus; Prøitz, Tine S. – Education Inquiry, 2017
The push for evidence-based practice in education has led to a range of initiatives aimed at bridging the gap between research, policy and practice. Among these are the establishment of brokerage agencies with a mission to synthesise the findings of educational research. This development has been the subject of extensive controversy over the last…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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Ferrandino, Joseph – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
This article details the Northwest Indiana Public Safety Data Consortium (NWIPSDC), a privately funded data-sharing network housed at Indiana University Northwest, an anchor institution, that includes several private-sector participants and over 30 public safety agencies at all levels of government (local, county, state, and federal). The NWIPSDC…
Descriptors: Safety, National Security, Consortia, Partnerships in Education
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Jarvis, Christy; Gregory, Joan M. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2016
With journal price increases continuing to outpace inflation and library collection funds remaining stagnant or shrinking, libraries are seeking innovative ways to control spending while continuing to provide patrons with high-quality content. The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library reports on the evaluation, implementation, and use of…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Special Libraries, Library Administration, Library Services
Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
Beginning at a local two-year college and then transferring to a four-year institution has been one of the most affordable ways for students to earn a bachelor's degree. Yet transfer pathways from two- to four-year institutions are often complex and confusing, and too many students who begin at a community college and aspire to earn a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy
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Wilson, Terri S. – National Education Policy Center, 2017
"Better Evidence, Better Choices, Better Schools," a recent report from the Center for American Progress and the Knowledge Alliance, focuses on the evidence-based research provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA provisions ask districts and schools to consider various sources of evidence, make judgments about the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation
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