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Michal, Audrey L.; Zhong, Yiwen; Shah, Priti – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Today's citizens are expected to use evidence, frequently presented in the media, to inform decisions about health, behavior, and public policy. However, science misinformation is ubiquitous in the media, making it difficult to apply research appropriately. Across two experiments, we addressed how anecdotes and prior beliefs impact readers'…
Descriptors: Evidence, Decision Making, Beliefs, Mass Media
Michal, Audrey L.; Zhong, Yiwen; Shah, Priti – Grantee Submission, 2021
Today's citizens are expected to use evidence, frequently presented in the media, to inform decisions about health, behavior, and public policy. However, science misinformation is ubiquitous in the media, making it difficult to apply research appropriately. Across two experiments, we addressed how anecdotes and prior beliefs impact readers'…
Descriptors: Evidence, Decision Making, Beliefs, Mass Media
Hofer, Andrea-Rosalinde; Zhivkovikj, Aleksandra; Smyth, Roger – OECD Publishing, 2020
Governments recognise that careers guidance, underpinned by accurate labour market information, can help learners make post-secondary education choices that match their interests, aptitudes and abilities, and lead to rewarding employment. For this reason, they have invested in building linked education/employment information systems and other…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Educational Research, Access to Education, Access to Information
Sirinides, Philip; Coffey, Missy – State Education Standard, 2018
Americans share an expectation that government will serve the common good, creating inescapable pressure for public agencies--especially those that serve young children--to perform well. Yet education and human services agencies continually struggle to respond to the complex conditions in which children are born. How can they address the practical…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Makela, Carole J. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2016
"Big data" prompts a whole lexicon of terms--data flow; analytics; data mining; data science; smart you name it (cars, houses, cities, wearables, etc.); algorithms; learning analytics; predictive analytics; data aggregation; data dashboards; digital tracks; and big data brokers. New terms are being coined frequently. Are we paying…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Utilization, Data Collection, Consumer Science
Green, Jennifer L.; Smith, Wendy M.; Kerby, April T.; Blankenship, Erin E.; Schmid, Kendra K.; Carlson, Mary Alice – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2018
In this study, we examined how in-service middle-level mathematics teachers used statistics in their own classroom research. Using an embedded single-case design, we analyzed a purposefully selected sample of nine teachers' classroom research papers, identifying several themes within each phase of the statistical problem solving process to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers
Moss, Pamela A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2013
Studies of data use illuminate ways in which education professionals have used test scores and other evidence relevant to students' learning--in action in their own contexts of work--to make decisions about their practice. These studies raise instructive challenges for a validity theory that focuses on intended interpretations and uses of test…
Descriptors: Validity, Test Use, Test Interpretation, Scores
Brown, Chris; Zhang, Dell – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: Whilst beneficial, the use of evidence to improve teaching and learning in schools is proving difficult to achieve in practice. The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on this issue by examining the applicability of a model of rational behaviour as relates to the notion of evidence-informed practice (EIP). Specifically, exploring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Behavior
Smiley, Robert W. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative, multi-case research study examines how leaders use data to inform decisions related to technology use, including how they use enGauge program evaluation data, identifies leadership practices and related contextual factors present in four K-12 public school districts. This research study examines the questions: What are the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Educational Technology
Micek, Sidney S.; Wallhaus, Robert A. – 1973
This document describes the development of an inventory of higher education outcome variables and measures. The intent of the inventory is to assist different kinds and levels of decisionmakers in communicating the desired and actual outcomes of instructional as well as research and public service activities. Two guidelines for using the inventory…
Descriptors: Community Services, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Ala-Kurikka, Reijo; And Others – 1973
This paper presents a system for the utilization and communication of educational research results to the decisionmaker and other interested persons. The system, developed by the National Board of Education of Sweden, explains what is meant by the utilization of research, analyzes the three stages of research, and presents several stages of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Stepp, Ermel, Jr. – 1974
Effective action in educational development is dependent upon an adequate consideration of requisite variety. An adequate consideration of requisite variety includes a delineation of the information field appropriate for the decisionmaking system. An interaction of the information domain with each state of development, state-set, and whole would…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Decision Making, Educational Development, Educational Research
BOLTON, DALE L. – 1968
THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF FOUR VARIABLES ON TEACHER SELECTION DECISIONS IN RELATION TO THE CONSISTENCY OF THE DECISIONS, THE FINENESS OF THE DISCRIMINATIONS MADE, THE TIME NEEDED TO MAKE THE DECISIONS, AND THE CONFIDENCE THAT THE DECISIONMAKER HAD IN HIS DECISIONS. THE FOUR VARIABLES WERE (1) AMOUNT OF…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Educational Research, Employment Interviews
Asher, William; Vockell, Edward – 1973
Research investigated: 1) the quality of literature disseminated through an educational information channel, 2) its acceptance level, and 3) its effects upon decision-making. Some 102 research documents were selected from the 1971 entries in Research in Education (RIE), the abstracting and microfiche dissemination service for unpublished…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diffusion, Educational Research, Information Dissemination
Alexander, Jay; And Others – 1980
An evaluator-manager interaction model is developed for predicting the impact of evaluation and research findings. Instruments are developed for measuring the variables of interpersonal involvement, impact of evaluation, and managerial style in the relationship between evaluator and manager. The hypothesis advanced suggests that evaluators can…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Evaluation, Feedback
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