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Maxwell, Bronwen; Sharples, Jonathan; Coldwell, Mike – Review of Education, 2022
Models of research use in education tend to focus on specific elements of education systems or underplay the complexity of system change. Within other public policy areas, notably health, more work has been undertaken to integrate systems thinking when considering knowledge mobilisation and research use. In this paper, we survey public policy…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Research Utilization, Public Policy, Policy Analysis
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Neely, Kate; Bortz, Martin; Bice, Sara – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
This article provides an appraisal of collaborative conceptual modelling (CCM) as a tool for research translation. First developed by Newell and Proust (2012), CCM draws on the tools and frameworks of systems thinking as a way of addressing transdisciplinary problems. We applied CCM in two separate workshops - one discussing 'Digital Cities', and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Utilization, Research and Development
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Stephen MacGregor; Joel R. Malin; Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
Education policy continues to press for increased use of research evidence in decision-making, yet decades of research point to weak links between research and practice. We see evidence-informed improvement not as a problem with schools, but with a larger evidence-use ecosystem. As a step toward building and strengthening multidirectional paths…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Systems Approach, Research and Development
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Cherney, Adrian; Head, Brian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2011
The processes for moving research-based knowledge to the domains of action in social policy and professional practice are complex. Several disciplinary research traditions have illuminated several key aspects of these processes. A more holistic approach, drawing on systems thinking, has also been outlined and advocated by recent contributors to…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Research Utilization, Information Dissemination, Theory Practice Relationship
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Uneke, C. J.; Ezeoha, A. E.; Ndukwe, C. D.; Oyibo, P. G.; Onwe, F.; Igbinedion, E. B.; Chukwu, P. N. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2011
This paper presents and discusses the outcome of an exploratory quantitative cross-sectional study of the perceptions of Nigeria health policy makers on capacity for evidence use in policy making at individual and organisational levels. The capacity for acquisition, assessment, adaptation and application of research evidence in policy making at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Policy Formation, Public Health
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McNeal, Karen S.; Libarkin, Julie C.; Ledley, Tamara Shapiro; Bardar, Erin; Haddad, Nick; Elins, Kathy; Dutta, Saranee – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2014
This study reports on an effort to illustrate the coupling of educational research with ongoing curriculum development to promote effective and evidence-based online learning. The research findings have been used to inform the "EarthLabs" curriculum development team as they revise existing modules and create new modules, in order to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Climate, Earth Science, Online Courses
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Howard, George S. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1985
Reviews the scientist practitioner model in counseling and examines problems associated with it. Discusses insights of general systems theory and Rychlak's insights into deficiencies in the current model of psychological research, and presents a revised model. (JAC)
Descriptors: Counseling, Cybernetics, Epistemology, Research Utilization
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Van Crowder, L.; Anderson, J. – European Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 1997
Weak links among research, education, and extension often result from their informal nature, national agriculture policy environment, and funding shortages. An integrative systems approach can strengthen links to improve agriculture technology systems. (SK)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Educational Research, Extension Education, Research Utilization
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Best, Allan; Moor, Gregg; Holmes, Bev; Clark, Pamela I.; Bruce, Ted; Leischow, Scott; Buchholz, Kaye; Krajnak, Judith – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2003
Objective:: To help close the gap between health promotion research and practice by using systems thinking. Methods: We review 3 national US tobacco control initiatives and a project (ISIS) that has introduced systems thinking to tobacco control, speculating on ways in which systems thinking may add value to health promotion dissemination and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Smoking, Theory Practice Relationship, Program Implementation
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Minelli, Eliana; Rebora, Gianfranco; Turri, Matteo; Huisman, Jeroen – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
This article focuses on the impact of research and education evaluation on two universities: Trento State University (Italy) and the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The article adopts a system approach to evaluation and proposes a model to describe and analyse evaluation systems. The analysis has been carried out by means of in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Research Utilization, Universities
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Technology Teacher, 1986
The technological systems of communication, production, and transportation provide the content for structuring technology education programs. State departments of education have produced curriculum materials based on these systems. To make programs meaningful, teachers must focus on technological systems and must study the technical and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Production Techniques, Research Utilization, Science and Society
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Terenzini, Patrick T. – Higher Education, 1999
Identifies gaps between what research reveals about how college students learn and current academic, pedagogical, and administrative practices and policies. Offers five explanations of why these gaps exist and suggests that change must be systemic, and will also require that people relearn their roles, systematic measurement of progress, and a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Students, Educational Practices, Higher Education
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Akinsanya, Sherri K. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1984
In commenting on the preceding article by Dobbert et al, maintains that Dobbert's systems approach model for the collection and study of cultural transmission data provides a concrete operational plan for making that data useful in teacher-training and in the classroom, particularly in developing countries. (RDN)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Developing Nations, Educational Anthropology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Schuyten, Gilberte – Education and Computing, 1987
Discussion of the view of education as a process of development, rather than as knowledge acquisition, focuses on the use of computers and other new information technologies (NITs) in primary schools. This is a paper from a 1987 working conference sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). (16 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology
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Stack, Connie; Peterson, Joel – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Classroom assessment and classroom research in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is traced to 1989 when the terms entered the community-college faculty-development vocabulary. They are now household words among the 500 faculty participating regularly in faculty development. Problems encountered and positive results are…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges
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