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Nilufer Medora; Sarah Taylor; Tiffany L. Brown – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This paper presents recommendations for faculty mentors interested in conducting a study abroad program in the social sciences. The recommendations discussed in this paper aim to support faculty in pre-departure planning, during the study abroad experience, and after the study abroad experience concludes. The strategies presented in this paper aim…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Study Abroad, Mentors
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McCoy, Kathleen P. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The purpose of this special issue is to provide readers with a greater awareness of the processes involved in dissemination, as well as existing supports that help disseminate and sustain evidence-based interventions. Although dissemination research is limited in most disciplines, it is particularly lacking in the social science field. Many…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Knowledge Management, Evidence, Intervention
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Traube, Dorian E.; Begun, Stephanie; Petering, Robin; Flynn, Marilyn L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
The field of social work does not currently have a widely adopted method for expediting innovations into micro- or macropractice. Although it is common in fields such as engineering and business to have formal processes for accelerating scientific advances into consumer markets, few comparable mechanisms exist in the social sciences or social…
Descriptors: Social Work, Innovation, Technology Transfer, Theory Practice Relationship
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Gambrill, Eileen – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Integrating practice and research is vital in all helping professions in order to offer the most ethical, evidence-informed interventions to clients. This article describes some avoidable distractions that hinder integration, discusses controversies related to integration, and describes options for moving forward, including making wasted resources…
Descriptors: Intervention, Integrated Activities, Social Science Research, Praxis
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Bertram, Rosalyn M.; Blase, Karen A.; Fixsen, Dean L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
This article presents recent refinements to implementation constructs and frameworks. It updates and clarifies the frequently cited study conducted by the National Implementation Research Network that introduced these frameworks for application in diverse endeavors. As such, it may serve as a historical marker in the rapidly developing science and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Program Implementation, Human Services, Theory Practice Relationship
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Rubin, Allen – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
This keynote address discusses previous and ongoing efforts to reduce the persistent gap between research and practice in social work and offers recommendations for further bridging that gap. Key among those recommendations is the need to conduct descriptive outcome studies of efforts to adapt research-supported interventions in everyday practice…
Descriptors: Social Work, Social Science Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Utilization
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Odom, Samuel L.; Duda, Michelle A.; Kucharczyk, Suzanne; Cox, Ann W.; Stabel, Aaron – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
Post-school outcomes for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are exceedingly poor. The convergence of adolescence as a development period, the expression of ASD during adolescence, and the complicated logistic nature of high schools create a perfect storm of complexity that may pose challenges and establish barriers to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents
Odom, Samuel L.; Duda, Michelle A.; Kucharczyk, Suzanne; Cox, Ann W.; Stabel, Aaron – Grantee Submission, 2014
Post-school outcomes for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are exceedingly poor. The convergence of adolescence as a development period, the expression of ASD during adolescence, and the complicated logistic nature of high schools create a perfect storm of complexity that may pose challenges and establish barriers to…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Program Implementation, High School Students
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Buus, Lillian – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
At Aalborg University (AAU) we are known to work with problem-based learning (PBL) in a particular way designated "The Aalborg PBL model." In PBL the focus is on participant control, knowledge sharing, collaboration among participants, which makes it interesting to consider the integration of social media in the learning that takes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Problem Based Learning, Systems Development
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Ozga, Jenny – Critical Studies in Education, 2007
Knowledge transfer (KT) is the emergent "third sector" of higher education activity--alongside research and teaching. Its commercialization origins are evidenced in its concerns to extract maximum value from research, and in the policy push to make research-based knowledge trapped in disciplinary silos more responsive to the growing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Social Science Research
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Priscoli, Jerome Delli – Environmentalist, 1983
Discusses why modern engineering requires social science and the nature of planning. After these conceptional discussions, 12 practical tools which social science brings to engineering are reviewed. A tested approach to training engineers in these tools is then described. Tools include institutional analysis, policy profiling, and other impact…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Environmental Education, Futures (of Society)
Zevin, Jack – 1979
A 1977 project to acquaint secondary school teachers, administrators, specialists, and parent groups to innovative social science programs and textbooks is described. Project staff consisted of education and social science professors and an experienced teacher. Divided into small groups, participants were encouraged to sample, study, and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Information Dissemination, Inservice Education, Instructional Improvement
Cruthird, J. Robert L. – 1986
This paper emphasizes the importance of faculty attention to instructional improvement practices and curriculum development for underprepared college freshmen. Instead of downgrading course content instructors must devise college level instruction that has the following characteristics: (1) interdisciplinary content; (2) student focus; and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, College Curriculum, College Freshmen
Quebec Commission on the Evaluation of Collegiate Teaching (Quebec). – 1997
In 1990, social science programs in Quebec's colleges in Canada were revised to standardize core courses and objectives across individual courses. Subsequently, the province's Commission on the Evaluation of Collegiate Teaching undertook an evaluation of the revised program to determine its administration and effectiveness, as well as the…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Greene, Lorraine Williams; And Others – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1995
Describes and evaluates an adolescent health promotion program that uses the Nguzo Saba and African philosophy to address violence and attitudes that reinforce the use of violence. Results from public housing adolescent reports indicate that the Nguzo Saba had a strong, positive influence resulting in fewer delinquent/violent acts. (GR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Afrocentrism, Blacks, Cultural Influences
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