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Zachariou, Aravella; Korfiatis, Konstantinos – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This paper is motivated by the idea that the study of the interplay of research and policy related to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in specific national contexts can contribute to global conversations about the relationships between education research and policy-making. It is written by two individuals who have been involved in…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Lin, Xiaoying – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: Through combing the 40 years' history of the development of Chinese educational policy research, this article attempts to sort out the efforts and lessons learned by researchers in the field of education policy in China. Design/Approach/Methods: As one of the earliest scholars engaged in the study of Chinese education policy, based on the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth; MacGregor, Stephen; Mazal, Mia – Center for Research Use in Education, 2023
Calls to improve relationships between research and practice abound, among them efforts to help researchers to work in partnership with and communicate more effectively with policy and practice audiences, informing those that govern and design educational policies and those charged with implementation in schools and classrooms, respectively. These…
Descriptors: Correlation, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Penney, Dawn – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
This paper uses Ball's [1998. Big policies/small world: An introduction to international perspectives in education policy. "Comparative Education," 34(2), 119-130] policy analysis and Bernstein's [1990. "The structuring of pedagogic discourse. Volume IV class, codes and control". London: Routledge; 2000, "Pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Correlation
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Middlehurst, Robin – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
From the perspective of the UK, this paper addresses two main themes. It presents a higher education (HE) research agenda for the next decade linked to key policy challenges and reflects on the dynamics of the research-policy landscape. The paper begins by identifying four dimensions of the UK that will continue to be important as a focus for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Networks, Correlation
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Gornitzka, Åse – European Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The nexus between research and policy in higher education as in other sectors of society is multimodal and not adequately captured by the notion of a cultural gap between the world of practice and the world of research. Neither can the relationship be seen as unidirectional. This paper sketches out the range of uses of research in policy-making,…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research, Higher Education, Relevance (Education)
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Klavir, Rama; Goldenberg, Judy – Gifted and Talented International, 2014
This article describes a program for excellent students that views research as an inseparable part of its development, and utilizes research findings as a means to aid formulation and implementation of policy changes. Eight nationwide graduate follow-up studies have been conducted on the program. Their findings were studied comprehensively, and…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Academically Gifted, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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Laessoe, Jeppe; Feinstein, Noah Weeth; Blum, Nicole – Environmental Education Research, 2013
This essay examines the relationship between research and policy and, more specifically, how researchers might relate to policy work. Given the current international policy focus on climate change, green growth and sustainability in general, it argues for strengthening and widening policy research in the areas of Environmental Education (EE),…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
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Chong, Pei Wen; Graham, Linda J. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2013
International comparison is complicated by the use of different terms, classification methods, policy frameworks and system structures, not to mention different languages and terminology. Multi-case studies can assist in the understanding of the influence wielded by cultural, social, economic, historical and political forces upon educational…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Research
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Clark, Jill – Comparative Education Review, 1976
Identifies socioeconomic factors and political system variables associated with variation in educational policy outputs among developing nations. An effort is also made to determine which of these input factors has more significant influence on two educational policy dimensions: distributive spending and non-distributive spending. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Correlation, Cross Sectional Studies, Developing Nations, Educational Finance
Ahmed, Susan – 1997
This working paper contains the overheads used in a seminar designed to introduce some basic concepts of statistics to nonstatisticians. The seminar has been presented on several occasions. The first part of the seminar, and the first set of overheads, deals with the essentials of statistics, including: (1) population, sample, and inference; (2)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Mathematical Models
Conway, James A. – 1973
To test the relationship between levels of participation and organizational effectiveness, 166 secondary school teachers completed Likert's "Profile of an Organization" and an adaptation of Belasco-Alutto's""Decisional Participation Scale." It was assumed that Equilibrium (participating as much as desired) was the most…
Descriptors: Correlation, Decision Making, Educational Research, Measurement Instruments