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Supplee, Lauren; Boaz, Annette; Metz, Allison – William T. Grant Foundation, 2023
The fields of implementation science and the study of research use in policy and practice travel on many of the same roads and share similar goals, chief among which is improving societal outcomes through the application of research. Both fields also attract interdisciplinary teams and create strikingly similar knowledge across contexts. However,…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Utilization, Evidence
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Bimali Indrarathne – ELT Journal, 2025
Whether or not ELT practitioners have access to research findings, their understanding of them and the perceived relevance to their own contexts are important debates in the language education field. This paper discusses an initiative that attempted to disseminate research findings relating to teaching/learning grammar to a group of ELT teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Steiner, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Education leaders know that they should use research when choosing interventions for their schools, but they don't always know how to read the research that is available. David Steiner explains some of the reasons that reading research is a low priority for educators on the front lines and offers some guidance for determining whether research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Leaders, Leadership, Research Utilization
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Fowle, Karen; Wells, Brent; Day, Melissa; Kumar, Anjali; Bess, Cameron; Bingham, Brian; Wayman, Annica – Research Evaluation, 2021
Organizations that fund research to address global development challenges are increasingly interested in measuring the social and economic outcomes of research. However, traditional metrics for measuring research outputs are often insufficient for capturing the outcomes targeted by international assistance organizations. To address this, the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Research Utilization, Measurement Techniques
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Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Educational Psychologist, 2023
In this essay we begin with a discussion of what we call the "great gap" between our research and its influence on society. We point out that although there is ample evidence speaking to these areas, a lack of societal change suggests that evidence has largely gone unnoticed, ignored, or not well promoted or disseminated. Throughout this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Research and Development
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Finnigan, Kara S. – Educational Policy, 2023
This article discusses what we know about the underlying social and political conditions shaping research evidence use in education and how this applies to Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs). It discusses types of use, political dynamics and processes, brokers and intermediaries, and racial dynamics and lenses. It also recommends strategies for…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Politics of Education, Research Utilization
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Wonsavage, F. Paul – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2023
In this article, I share a design-based research intervention meant to help mathematics district leaders build their capacity to engage with research quality. I present my design (i.e., principles, key features, and intervention structure) and elaborate on how the features of the design allowed for mathematics district leaders' sensemaking of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Comprehension, Theory Practice Relationship
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Tiffany Berry; Brittany Hite; Michelle Sloper; Haley Umans – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
The research-to-practice gap describes the well-documented phenomena of researchers and practitioners working in silos, embedded in vastly different contexts. This "cultural divide" has several causes, including ineffective collaboration, inadequate understanding of context, and insufficient dissemination and translation of research.…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Researchers, Evaluators, Coordinators
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Jackson, Cara – Educational Researcher, 2022
This essay offers a framework for broader community involvement as a means of increasing the relevance and usefulness of evidence developed. This essay begins by defining key concepts related to democratizing the development of evidence. The sections that follow outline a logic model that calls for a bidirectional, iterative set of core activities…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Evidence, Democracy, Accountability
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Yamashiro, Kyo; Wentworth, Laura; Kim, Moonhawk – Educational Policy, 2023
The challenges of transforming our educational systems to fulfill enduring needs for equity, justice, and responsiveness will take a multitude of partners. Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) arrange collaboration and engagement with research to bring about shared commitments and resources to tackle these challenges. Just as sociocultural and…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Theory Practice Relationship
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Sophie Rudolph; Eve Mayes; Tebeje Molla; Sophie Chiew; Natasha Abhayawickrama; Netta Maiava; Danielle Villafana; Rosie Welch; Ben Liu; Rachel Couper; Iris Duhn; Al Fricker; Archie Thomas; Menasik Dewanyang; Hayley McQuire; Sophie Hashimoto-Benfatto; Michelle Spisbah; Zach Smith; Tarneen Onus-Browne; Emma Rowe; Joel Windle; Fazal Rizvi – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
The question of how education research can be 'useful' is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread 'impact' agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, School Community Relationship, Research Utilization
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Rodrigues, Jessica – Educational Researcher, 2021
This article suggests two approaches for sharing education research based on a model of research dissemination for Twitter pioneered by the medical community. The first approach is the visual abstract that reflects a visual summary of a study's textual abstract. Evidence demonstrates that compared with a text-alone approach, the visual abstract…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Utilization, Medicine, Information Dissemination
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
Dr Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah's article, "The New Territory of Educational Research in TESOL/TEFL: What Novice Researchers Should Know", provides a comprehensive guide for novice researchers in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). It emphasises the importance of research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Digital Promise Global, 2021
Effective classroom teachers have always personalized learning. But they have done so with limited structural supports, such as curriculum, pedagogy, tools, and resources specifically designed to support personalization. For the education community to bring personalized learning more systematically to many more learners, research about how…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Educational Research, Technology Uses in Education, Student Diversity
Stevenson, Isobel; Lemons, Richard W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
The relationship between research and practice in K-12 is complicated and fraught. Research publications are unlikely to become more "user-friendly," and teachers are unlikely to change their practice quickly or more willingly -- nor should they. Recognize that reality, Isobel Stevenson and Richard Lemons explain that schools need to…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
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