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Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Good, Annalee – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
The field of education is progressively building capacity and tools for producing rigorous research evidence to use in improving educational practice and outcomes. The knowledge base is lacking, however, in explicating the dynamics of research-based decision making and exploring connections between the work of research-practice partnerships and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Research Utilization, Use Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Stevenson, Michael; Hedberg, John G.; O'Sullivan, Kerry-Ann; Howe, Cathie – Professional Development in Education, 2016
In contemporary school settings, leaders seeking to support professional development are faced with many challenges. These challenges call for educators who can undertake professional learning that is continuous and adaptive to change. As a term, continuous professional development (CPD) reflects many different forms of professional development in…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Leadership Role, School Support, Mixed Methods Research
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Purdy, Noel; Morrison, Hugh – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This paper critically examines the application of research into cognitive neuroscience to educational contexts. It first considers recent warnings from within the neuroscientific community itself about the limitations of current neuroscientific knowledge and the urgent need to dispel popular "neuromyths" which have become accepted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain, Research Utilization, Scientific Research
Langvick, Mina M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
The purpose of this study is to analyze current practices in the construction of State courses of study. Available State courses of study, reports of survey commissions and educational officials, and other State educational publications have been examined to discover the problems considered significant by State educational officials and the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Course Content