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Direct linkMary Ellen Dello Stritto; Naomi R. Aguiar; Greta R. Underhill; Cat Turk; Gretchen Lohry-Smith; Raquel Lamantain – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
In higher education, online students are often precluded from research assistantships that are more accessible for campus-based students. At a highly ranked institution for online learning, we developed the Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to address this gap in opportunities for online students. The URP is designed to engage fully distanced…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, Student Research, Research Opportunities
Mathieu, Robert D.; Pfund, Christine; Gillian-Daniel, Don – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
In an attempt to move, if not balance, the scales of activity toward increasing scientific capability across a diverse national population, U.S. federal funding agencies are purposefully linking research funding to broad national impact. Among United States federal agencies, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has led the way in the integration…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Educational Change, Public Agencies, Alignment (Education)
Llosa, Lorena; Slayton, Julie – Language Teaching Research, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how program evaluation can be conducted and communicated in ways that meaningfully affect the education of English language learners (ELLs) in US schools. First, the paper describes the Waterford Early Reading Program Evaluation, a large-scale evaluation of a reading intervention implemented in schools with…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Program Evaluation, Early Reading, Reading Programs
Roberts, Peter – International Review of Education, 2007
This paper provides a critical analysis of New Zealand's Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). The first section sketches the development and implementation of the PBRF. The second section evaluates the scheme, concentrating on three themes: the relationship between privatization, competition and research performance; the standardization of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, Privatization, Policy Analysis
Peer reviewedKemph, John P.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1984
A voluntary summer research program, implemented at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, is described. Publications and presentations by medical students and responses of students and faculty members to a questionnaire were used to evaluate it. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Medical Research, Medical Students, Program Descriptions
Download full textJaeger, Richard M. – 1988
This report of the Project to Enhance the Educational Research Awareness of Faculty in the Historically Black Institutions of the University of North Carolina includes its first annual report of project activities, presenting information on the eight Educational Research Fellows, the mentorship program, a workshop on oral presentation of research…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Research, Faculty Development, Higher Education
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1977
This report, published in two volumes, provides a documentary record of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science Development Program (SDP). Information is given on overall university funding levels and on other development programs, with SDP goals and procedures described in detail. Using information on budgets and goals as well as…
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum, Engineering, Federal Programs
Brethower, Karen S.; Rummler, Geary A. – Training and Development Journal, 1979
Presents general systems models (ballistic system, guided system, and adaptive system) and an evaluation matrix to help in examining training evaluation alternatives and in deciding what evaluation is appropriate. Includes some guidelines for conducting evaluation studies using four designs (control group, reversal, multiple baseline, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Soh, Kay Cheng – New Horizons in Education, 2006
Background: In 2005, the North Zone Clusters of Schools made action research their niche development project with the aim of equipping the teachers with conceptual understanding and skills in conducting action research. Training workshops were mounted in seven centres. This is the first time action research is promoted en mass among Singapore as a…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Action Research, Foreign Countries, Teacher Workshops
Ginsburg, Alan; Rhett, Nancy – American Journal of Evaluation, 2003
A useful evaluation of an education program is one that adds to the body of timely, relevant evidence to increase the likelihood that policy decisions improve program performance. This definition focuses on performance rather than change and recognizes that studies can't guarantee the use of their findings but can only increase the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Program Effectiveness, Inferences, Scientific Methodology
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1982
The Experimental Program for Opportunities in Advanced Study and Research in Education was a 3-year training program (1979-82) funded by the National Institute of Education to increase participation in educational research of women and minorities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. During the third project year, these objectives guided the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Conference Papers, Doctoral Programs, Educational Research
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1989
The Maryland Center for Thinking Studies, established at Coppin State College in July 1988, and presented in this report, provides training and resources in the teaching of thinking and fosters research in thinking improvement. When fully operational, the Center will assimilate and contribute to research in cognitive instruction, disseminate the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum
Woodrow, Raymond J. – 1978
A distinction is made between management for research and management of research. The former refers to the provision of a nourishing climate, sound policies supporting services of various kinds, financial systems, and organizational arrangements that will help research to flourish in a university. It exists to support the management of research, a…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Ancillary School Services, College Administration
