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Review of "Learning about Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know"
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Thomas, P. L.; Goering, Christian Z. – National Education Policy Center, 2016
As part of an ongoing series of reports by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), "Learning About Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know" makes broad claims about teacher education based on a limited analysis of textbooks and syllabi. The report argues that teacher education materials, specifically educational psychology…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Research Reports, Preservice Teacher Education
Reflections on the Research to Practice Gap.
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Gersten, Russell; Smith-Jones, Joyce – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2001
This article highlights major points of each of the articles in this special issue on the research to practice gap in special education. It then considers some broader implications, especially the need to foster and establish collegial networks to counter the isolation in which many teachers currently work. (Contains references.) (DB)
Descriptors: Collegiality, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Toward Better-Informed Decisions: Reading Groups as a Campus Tool.
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Eckel, Peter; Kezar, Adrianna; Lieberman, Devorah – New Directions for Higher Education, 2000
Discusses the value of institutional reading groups as vehicles for engaging faculty in the body of higher education literature and encouraging the use of research in decision making. Suggests these groups are an effective and efficient strategy for assimilating large amounts of complex information, fostering new knowledge, and sparking campus-…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Bringing Research To Bear on Practice: Effecting Evidence-Based Instruction for Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders.
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Cook, Brian G.; Landrum, Timothy J.; Tankersley, Melody; Kauffman, James M. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2003
This paper examines the role of effective practices in making education "special" for students with emotional and/or behavior disorders and discusses barriers and potential solutions for translating research into practice. These include accessibility of the literature base, teacher training and the role of teacher educators, support to implement…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Research to Practice Dissemination, Scale, and Context: We Can Do It, but Can We Afford It?
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Sindelar, Paul T.; Brownell, Mary T. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2001
Discussion of the research-to-practice gap in special education focuses on the dissemination problems of scale, school politics, and social and institutional contexts, including schools of education. Recommendations include improving access to a teacher friendly research knowledge base, improving preservice education, creating broader staff…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Putting Educational Research to Use through Knowledge Transformation. The Agency Comments.
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Desforges, Charles – 2001
Educational research is distinctive inasmuch as it shares the moral objective of education, which is to help people make the best of themselves through processes of learning. Educational research is a service industry for education. As such, its contribution to the efficiency and effectiveness of educational processes can be increased by focusing…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Learning, Definitions, Diffusion (Communication)