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Ingela Portfelt – European Journal of Education, 2025
There is increasing interest in research-based education in the Western World as it is assumed to strengthen school improvement capacity. Previous research shows that school principals play a pivotal role in realising such vision. The aim of this article is to explore the influence of principals on research-based education in their local municipal…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Research
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Courtenay A. Barrett; Mark Prendergast – School Psychology International, 2025
In Ireland, as elsewhere, there has been growing recognition around the importance of using research evidence to inform educational policy and practice at both a national government and individual school level. Despite such importance, there is currently a dearth of empirical, peer-reviewed studies regarding the use of research evidence in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Information Dissemination, Research Utilization
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Louise Shaxson; Rick Hood; Annette Boaz; Brian Head – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2025
Background: Knowledge brokering plays an important role in the evidence-to-policy system, but little is known about whether and how it occurs within government departments. Aims and objectives: Using empirical evidence from one UK government department, this article analyses how knowledge brokering takes place inside the policy making process and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Evidence
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Pawel Scheffler; Karolina Baranowska; Shawn Loewen – ELT Journal, 2025
The current study investigated factors that potentially influenced the pedagogic practices of 132 EFL teachers from 28 secondary schools in a large city in Poland. The teachers completed a questionnaire about the factors that impacted their teaching practices. The primary influences on teaching practices turned out to be the course textbook and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)