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Hillier, Yvonne – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
This article examines the growth of practitioner research in England through the creation of the Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN) and identifies its effect on subsequent developments in what is generally known as the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS). It offers an analysis of this development as a case study in developing practitioner…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Research, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
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Rodriguez, Raul G. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1992
The Ethical Analysis Protocol is a set of questions on treatment of participants, research practices, and sociopolitical dimensions of research that can be used to elicit information about ethical assumptions, constraints, and implications of institutional research studies. They provide a framework for ethical analysis of an institutional research…
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Institutional Research, Research Methodology
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Jennings, Dennis M. – Higher Education Management, 1990
The discussion identifies the needs of university researchers for information technology (IT), describes the technologies available, and illustrates by examples the impact of new technologies on university research. Provision of IT resources for researchers is examined, and key strategies for IT adoption are suggested. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Higher Education, Information Technology, Needs Assessment
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Frankel, Mark S. – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1991
A discussion of resource allocation for scientific research identifies the ethical principles underlying the present debate and begins to construct a framework for evaluating various resource allocation proposals. The intent is to promote greater consideration of the link between ethics and science resource allocations. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Research Administration
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Richey, John B. – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1986
Converting research facility costs from indirect to direct costs is used as an illustrative example of the problems of making changes in research program costing policy. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Costs
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Roth, Dennis – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1992
Sources of potential health-related research support outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are discussed to encourage VA field research administrators to seek out new research funding arrangements. The history and scope of extra-VA research funding is reviewed and the VA research administrator's role is examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Federal Government, Financial Support, Health
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Perry, Chad; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortun – Higher Education, 1992
It is proposed that action research, as distinguished from traditional research, has a role in graduate management education. It is suggested that the former is more appropriate for developing managerial competencies. Differences between master's-level and doctoral-level action research projects are noted, and related issues for curriculum design…
Descriptors: Action Research, Business Administration Education, Curriculum Design, Doctoral Programs
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Hurst, Roderick E. – Higher Education Management, 1991
Discussion of cost management in international research projects looks at research activities supported by the European Community (EC) and their mechanisms for support, model interinstitutional contracts, and the difficulties encountered by institutions, and comments on the vital continued EC participation by universities in research and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Contracts, Costs, Foreign Countries
Archambault, Jean-Marie – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1985
While the model of peer evaluation has limits in its use in research resource allocation, it is vital for the equilibrium of the science structure and the university's mission, as evidenced in the University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres's pilot exercise in research evaluation. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Role, Financial Support, Higher Education
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Kember, David; Gow, Lynn – Higher Education, 1992
A discussion of classroom research to promote instructional improvement at the college level looks at how it can be effective in faculty development and describes several research projects. Issues in research promotion, design, and methodology and the feasibility of such projects in instructional development units are considered. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Wood, Fiona Q.; And Others – Higher Education, 1992
A survey investigated the Australian federal research grant process from the perspectives of unsuccessful 1991 applicants (n=222) from four universities. Findings include a number of limitations in the peer review process and information dissemination by the funding agency and raise questions about external evaluator selection. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Foreign Countries, Grantsmanship, Higher Education
Lidstone, John G. – 1987
The Queensland (Australia) Board of Secondary School Studies developed a geography syllabus for senior classrooms which was implemented in 1980. Revisions of the syllabus took place in 1982 and 1986. Based on the 1986 evaluation, this report provides an evaluation, a summary of the findings, and advice to principals and teachers. Twelve case…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Geography Instruction, High School Seniors
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Beasley, Kenneth L. – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1992
Three major professional associations for research administrators (National Conference on the Administration of Research, National Council of University Research Administrators, and Society of Research Administrators) are described and compared in terms of their objectives, group membership, and activities. The three are seen to serve different…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Committees, Comparative Analysis
Savenije, Bas; Otten, Christ – 1985
Results of changes to the planning process at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands are described. During the past years, government actions related to retrenchment prompted the Dutch universities to change their planning process in order to increase flexibility and to account for differences in quality. Two important procedures were…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, College Programs, Educational Change
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Owen, Michael – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1992
There are many excellent scientists in the natural and human sciences in Canada's small universities. If the institutions implement internal procedures to encourage and foster a research climate and if research councils consider alternative strategies for research funding, research productivity could expand greatly in quality and scope. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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