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Angel Bohannon; Cynthia Coburn; James Spillane – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Purpose: Decades of scholarship have drawn on Weiss's four categories of research use (Weiss, 1980; 2005; Weiss & Bucuvalas, 1980) -- instrumental use, symbolic use, conceptual use, and imposed use -- to examine how research use unfolds in school districts (e.g., Amara et al., 2004; Penuel et al., 2017). In this paper, we theorize a new form…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Utilization, School Districts, Educational Practices
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Larsson, Christer; Sjöberg, Lena – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
A key concern in international educational policy during the 21st century has been the impact of teacher professionalism on outcomes of schooling. Sweden makes for an interesting case because of the country's initiatives to improve the quality of education through an academization of the teachers. The aim of this study is to analyse how Swedish…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Teachers, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Tekin, Oguzhan – Teacher Development, 2023
Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and research behaviors are critical to both professional development and the quality of instruction. Thus, teachers are expected to accept and apply the research findings generated by educational researchers to solve a classroom, student, or instructional issue. This article aimed to determine teachers'…
Descriptors: Teachers, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables, Teacher Attitudes
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Gleeson, Joanne; Rickinson, Mark; Walsh, Lucas; Cutler, Blake; Salisbury, Mandy; Hall, Genevieve; Khong, Hang – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: This article comes in response to two gaps within the research use literature: a lack of work on quality of use as distinct from quality of evidence, and a lack of research use models based on practitioner, as opposed to researcher, perspectives. Aims and objectives: The study probes into the views of education practitioners about…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Educational Research, Evidence Based Practice, Teachers
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Glaés-Coutts, Lena; Nilsson, Henrik – Improving Schools, 2021
When Sweden began to experience a steady decline in student achievement results in PISA and TIMMS, the Swedish National Agency of Education initiated a model of collaboration with Swedish universities aimed at providing support to schools with falling student achievement scores. In this article, we examine how such projects can work at the local…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Teachers
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Sims, Wesley A.; King, Kathleen R.; Wicoff, Maribeth; Mancracchia, Nina; Womack, Tyler; Anazagasty, Jessica Mercado – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
Research has demonstrated that school-based problem-solving teams (SB PSTs), a term describing teams engaging in efforts to remediate problems in school settings, can effectively improve student functioning while reducing special education referrals and disproportionality. Unfortunately, questions remain as to the effectiveness of SB PSTs in the…
Descriptors: Teachers, Participative Decision Making, Problem Solving, Program Implementation