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Direct linkThomas, Jeena M.; Olson, Steve – National Academies Press, 2023
On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years. The event was a follow up to a February 2020 NAS symposium convened to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the landmark report Science, the Endless Frontier. Building on the 2020…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Science and Society
Download full textPogrow, Stanley – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
There is little discussion in the Design-Based Research (DBR) literature on how to design an intervention that has the potential to be highly effective. The act of designing is usually viewed as engineering something from theory or research on best practices. This paper challenges that universal belief and presents successful design as an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Design, Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking
Henderson, Karla A.; Bialeschki, M. Deborah – 1984
A questionnaire was devised and disseminated at the 1983 American Camping Association (ACA) convention to ascertain from members the value placed on camping research. The questionnaire addressed the following concerns: who should be conducting research, how should research be disseminated, what are the important broad areas of needed research, and…
Descriptors: Administration, Camping, Individual Needs, Organizational Objectives
Moore, Kristin A. – 1995
Based on the assumption that basic science is the crucial building block for technological and biomedical progress, this paper examines the relevance for public policy of basic demographic and behavioral sciences research on children and families. The characteristics of basic research as they apply to policy making are explored. First, basic…
Descriptors: Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Policy Formation, Public Policy
Whitesides, J. L.; Yuan, S. W. – 1975
A graduate program in engineering at the Joint Institute for Acoustics and Flight Sciences (JIAFS) is described. JIAFS is a cooperative undertaking between the NASA-Langley Research Center and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University. This program adopts a more practical approach than traditional graduate…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Programs, Engineering, Engineering Education
Mingde, Li – 1987
Since 1976 China has entered a new historical period in which the central task is to modernize agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology (S&T). The modernization of S&T is the key to the realization of the modernization in the other three fields. China has established a research and development (R&D) system of…
Descriptors: College Science, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Institutional Research
Toombs, William – 1975
Academic research funds increased more rapidly than enrollments between 1950 and 1970 but little analysis has been made of the educational effects of the change. In part this is due to an assumption that benefits to education flow automatically from funding for university-based research. As a result most studies of graduate study report only…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Educational Benefits, Educational Finance
McClure, Maureen W. – 1985
Research that occurs in universities under conditions of patronage is distinguished from research that occurs under less distorted market conditions. It is claimed that academic research is shifting from an area of patronage consumption to one of economic development investment. In addition to considering the markets for academic research and…
Descriptors: Donors, Economic Development, Financial Support, Government School Relationship
Bell, Stephen – 1990
A sample of seven colleges was chosen for a study on the research activities of community college faculties in Ontario. Faculty (N=394 out of a possible 865) were asked to indicate how often they participated in 22 different research activities and how characteristic these activities were of their role as community college faculty. The primary…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Publishing, Foreign Countries
Tornquist, Kristi M.; Kallsen, Lincoln A. – 1992
This study examined the characteristics of those universities from which scientists, working in private industry, procure research information. It assessed these characteristics with respect to institutional size, quality, institutional type, geographic location, and the presence of cooperative research structures. The study involved a citation…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Expenditures, Faculty Publishing
Clark, David L. – 1978
To date, little or no data is available about the effect of intra- or extra-institutional variables on individual or institutional productivity in educational research and development (R & D) settings. The Research on Institutions of Teacher Education (RITE) project was done to study knowledge production (R & D) and knowledge utilization…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Policy, Colleges, Educational Development
2002
This document contains four papers from a symposium on performance, productivity, and continuous improvement. "Investigating the Association between Productivity and Quality Performance in Two Manufacturing Settings" (Constantine Kontoghiorghes, Robert Gudgel) summarizes a study that identified the following quality management variables…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
