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Megan L. VanMeter; Lisa D. Hinz – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2024
This viewpoint conveys insights about the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) from the perspective of two students who trained under ETC co-creators Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn. The structure of the ETC is based on relationships among various kinds of information processing, and the function of the ETC is to provide…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Intervention, Evidence Based Practice, Cognitive Processes
Kuttner, Paul J.; Rawlings, Lisa; Washington, Marcie R. – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Evaluation of community-campus partnerships is a contested topic and, in many ways, is still at an early stage of development. With growing momentum behind community-university collaboration and increased pressure to document the positive impact of universities, there is a pressing need for research and innovation in this area. Many community…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Evaluation, Research and Development
Melanie Livet – National Implementation Research Network, 2023
The mission of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) is to contribute to the best practices and science of implementation, organizational change, and system reinvention to improve outcomes across the spectrum of human services. As such, it has been involved in advancing implementation practice through numerous initiatives over the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Research, Evaluation, Improvement
Howard S. Adelman; Linda Taylor – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2024
The purpose of this monograph is to advance thinking about transforming how schools play their role in addressing barriers to learning and teaching. In the process, the authors discuss embedding and framing the evolving literatures related to improvement and implementation sciences into a general intervention perspective. Part I of this monograph…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Educational Improvement, Research and Development
Patterson, Margaret Becker – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2016
This article describes outcomes of group discussion sessions that took place as part of the Commission on Adult Basic Education April 2016 conference in Dallas, Texas. Researchers and practitioners in adult education were the primary attendees of the conference. Session topics and points of discussion in this paper include: the challenge of the…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Adult Education, Educational Research
Wandersman, Abraham – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
The interest and effort in evaluation capacity building (ECB) continues to grow enormously among organizations, funders, and evaluators. Yet a research synthesis of the ECB literature (Labin, Duffy, Meyers, Wandersman, & Lesesne, 2012) revealed major limitations in the science and practice of ECB. This forum on ECB, which includes two past…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Capacity Building, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Wandersman, Abraham – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
The Labin et al. logic model describes the why, how, what, and potential outcomes of evaluation capacity building (ECB). Getting To Outcomes offers a frame and empirical results for operationalizing the ECB logic model of Labin et al. and for deepening the science and practice of ECB.
Descriptors: Evaluation, Capacity Building, Methods, Accountability
Sheets, Robert G.; Crawford, Stephen – EDUCAUSE Review, 2012
Higher education is under enormous pressure to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Information technology can help achieve these goals, but only if it is properly harnessed. This article argues that one key to harnessing information technology is business model innovation that results in more "open" and "unbundled" operations in learning and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Information Technology, Models
Baker, Eva L.; O'Neil, Harry – Educational Psychologist, 2010
We describe some of Merl's more subtle contributions that extended beyond his own prodigious scholarly record, his high-quality teaching, and his mentoring of students. The context of our remarks on Programmatic R&D focuses on his contribution to the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Education. Merl was the first director of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Educational Testing, Research and Development, Evaluation
Jang, Hwan Young – Performance Improvement, 2009
This article proposes needed transitions in the field of human performance technology. The following three transitions are discussed: transitioning from training to performance, transitioning from performance to performance system, and transitioning from learning organization to high performance system. A proposed framework that comprises…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Evaluation, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Dijkstra, J.; Van der Vleuten, C. P. M.; Schuwirth, L. W. T. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
Research on assessment in medical education has strongly focused on individual measurement instruments and their psychometric quality. Without detracting from the value of this research, such an approach is not sufficient to high quality assessment of competence as a whole. A programmatic approach is advocated which presupposes criteria for…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Research and Development, Focus Groups, Interviews
Vamos, Sandra; Hayos, Julia – American Journal of Health Education, 2010
The health education profession has developed over recent years garnering national and international attention. Canada's evolving health education perspective emphasizing the concept of health literacy within the broader public health system reflects the need for trained, competent and skilled health educators designing, implementing and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Health Education, Public Health, Foreign Countries
Williams, K. F. – London Review of Education, 2009
Research into the practice of academics serves to inform higher education development (HED) theory and interventions, and is important for the development of the professional knowledge of the HED practitioner. Through such research HED practitioners gain access to what in another context is referred to as "guilty knowledge". The complex ethical…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Research Design, Ethics, Research Methodology
Fiedler, Sebastian; Valjataga, Terje – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2010
From 2005 to 2008 the international research and development project iCamp carried out a series of targeted educational interventions into existing teaching and studying practices within a cluster of European universities. These interventions were meant to establish educational experiences that would correspond with key features of international,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Intervention, Educational Research
Zantout, Hind; Dabir-Alai, Parviz – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
In recent years, EU policy-makers have acknowledged the role of universities in supporting the knowledge economy and a common approach on higher education has been evolving. The problem faced is one single market with widely varying higher education systems. The ongoing drive to examine, assess and change the existing status quo began with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Evaluation