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Gary, Lee Presley, Jr.; Richmond, Scott – Online Submission, 2022
This presentation is a roadmap with a one-mode transition and subsequent application of selected higher education classroom materials to field research for learning, which has been a challenge for college faculty members for ages. The essential components of such a process are delineated, using the field experience gained by the authors with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Materials, College Faculty, Diseases
Knappen, Lucy B. – 1979
The role of co-investigator, in which the teacher leaves the classroom for half a day to work on a selected research project, is delineated. Teacher collaborators become involved as active participants with professional researchers in all phases of the research project in progress. The issues involved in collaboration, including the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Educational Research, Research and Development Centers, Research Projects
Roberts, Nigel, Ed. – 1989
The contributors to this document compare the main approaches to agricultural extension in sub-Saharan Africa; the cost-effectiveness in view of precarious national budgets; the weaknesses of the system for generating technology; the difficulties in forging productive partnerships between researchers, extensionists and farmers; the ineffective…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Higher Education, Modernization
Finn, Chester E., Jr. – 1988
The relationship between federal policy and educational research is discussed by the Assistant Secretary for Research and Improvement and Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Education. Issues covered include federal funding, with particular attention to the department's recent fiscal year budget submissions for the Office of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Torney-Purta, Judith – 1989
Course offerings with an international focus have expanded rapidly in secondary schools in the United States in the last decade, and research is needed to explore how global and international education goals may be achieved. Four models for organizing the research agenda are presented: (1) organization around a study of influences upon global and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Barker, Bruce O. – 1990
Any public or private, non-profit agency, organization, or institution committed to research in rural education may apply for official endorsement from the National Rural Education Association (NREA) to establish a recognized Rural Education Research Center. The major objectives of NREA endorsement of ongoing or future research include: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Research and Development Centers
Barnard, Wynette S. – 1981
Impact must be defined before it can be assessed. Part of the definition is that impact is the consequences of funded vocational education research and development projects and programs, not just the fact of the dissemination of the products of the projects. Programs are defined as a group of funded research and development improvement projects…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Vittoz, Bernard – Higher Education in Europe, 1984
Twelve strategies for redirecting university research efforts to respond to present-day needs are outlined, as discussed in a conference session of European university administrators. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Role, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Kitinoja, Lisa – 1988
Informal research and development (R & D) is defined as any small-scale, decentralized agricultural or extension education program that involves the population of learners in the process of planning, implementation, and evaluation of a learning process. It involves simple experimentation with potential solutions to common problems. The presence of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations
Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; And Others – 1988
Initial difficulties in the process of teaching 6 first-grade teachers to use reciprocal teaching in their classes, and the disappointing outcomes of the instruction, led researchers to several conclusions. Researchers realized that the beliefs teachers held about the nature of knowledge and the process of knowledge acquisition had a powerful role…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Educational Practices
Rossmiller, Richard A. – 1976
The management system developed by the Wisconsin Center for Cognitive Learning (CCL) is useful to principal investigators of individual projects for proposal development, project management, and project reporting, as well as to the CCL management for program planning, program management, and reporting to funding agencies. The system aids proposal…
Descriptors: Accounting, Management Information Systems, Management Systems, Program Administration
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Brahan, J. W. – Computers and Education, 1984
This paper reviews progress of computer-assisted learning technology to date with particular focus on National Research Council of Canada Computer Assisted Learning Project, and projects some computer-assisted learning developments to be expected during the rest of the 1980s. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computers, Foreign Countries
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
Bjork, Lars G. – 1984
Structural reorganization was investigated as one factor associated with the development of the University of New Mexico from an undergraduate teaching institution toward becoming of a nationally-ranked graduate research university. A longitudinal, ethnohistorical study was undertaken for the 1967-1978 period. The qualitative research methodology…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Role, Higher Education
Bloch, Erich – 1985
The role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in supporting college science and engineering education at the undergraduate level is discussed, along with important factors in the national environment, including economic challenges facing the country, and the foundation's relationship to research and education. Because of a shift to a global…
Descriptors: Budgets, College Faculty, College Science, Economic Climate
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