This report offers guidance to build teachers' and leaders' confidence in using research evidence, and to increase the use of research evidence in schools. The report does this by: (1) explaining the importance of different individual and school characteristics that can enable the increased and improved use of research evidence; (2) demonstrating,…

Using congressional testimony on teacher quality from 2003 to 2015 and analysis of 60 elite interviews, we show how the political economy of knowledge production influences idea uptake in education policy discourse. We develop and assess a conceptual framework showing the organizational and financial infrastructure that links research, ideas, and…

Health and social service practitioners have not readily incorporated research-based behavioral interventions in HIV prevention practice due to lack of awareness, lack of training, and challenges translating research findings into practice. Practitioners' involvement in research is associated with their willingness to use research to guide…