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Statewide Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs
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Fixsen, Dean; Blase, Karen; Metz, Allison; van Dyke, Melissa – Exceptional Children, 2013
Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily…
Descriptors: Evidence, State Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Evolving Knowledge Integration and Absorptive Capacity Perspectives upon University-Industry Interaction within a University
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Sparrow, John; Tarkowski, Krystyna; Lancaster, Nick; Mooney, Michele – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report upon an initiative within a case study UK university to facilitate service innovation in small firms. The paper aims to outline how explicit use of such concepts has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of this form of university-industry interaction. Design/methodology/approach: The paper…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, School Business Relationship, Case Studies, Inquiry
Transitional Care
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Naylor, Mary; Keating, Stacen A. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2008
Transitional care encompasses a broad range of services and environments designed to promote the safe and timely passage of patients between levels of health care and across care settings. High-quality transitional care is especially important for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and complex therapeutic regimens, as well as for their…
Descriptors: Evidence, Older Adults, Caregivers, Patients
Job Design for Learning in Work Groups
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Lantz, Annika; Brav, Agneta – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Task Analysis, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Innovation Configurations Chart a Measured Course toward Change
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Roy, Patricia; Hord, Shirley M. – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
What do the National Staff Development Council's standards look like in practice for teachers, principals, central office staff, superintendents, and board members? Newly developed Innovation Configurations help everyone on the list understand where they fall along the continuum of effective practices aligned to the standards.
Descriptors: Innovation, Faculty Development, Concept Mapping, Standard Setting
Action Learning for Strategic Innovation in Mature Organizations: Key Cognitive, Design and Contextual Considerations
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Kuhn, Jeffrey S.; Marsick, Victoria J. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
This article lays out a model of action learning for catalyzing strategic innovation in mature organizations that are faced with a new competitive playing field. Central to this model is the development of a set of sophisticated cognitive capabilities--sensemaking, strategic thinking, critical thinking, divergent thinking, conceptual capacity and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Innovation, Experiential Learning, Training Methods