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Avis, James – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2006
The paper examines the relationship between research and practice. Its starting point is a consideration of the difference between policy science and scholarship. This leads to an analysis of the current importance attached by the state to evidence-informed practice and systematic review. Such research strategies will, it is claimed, lead to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Practices
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Avis, James; Parsons, John; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2001
Explores ways in which researchers gathered and analyzed data from time-log diaries kept by further education instructors in order to illuminate the social conditions of teaching. Describes the process of refinement of diaries and the combination of qualitative and quantitative data. (Contains 40 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Analysis, Diaries, Faculty Workload