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Briand-Lamarche, Mélodie; Pinard, Renée; Thériault, Pascale; Dagenais, Christian – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
To encourage the use of research-based information (RBI) in education in Quebec, the "Centre de transfert pour la réussite educative du Québec" CTREQ and the RENARD team, a knowledge transfer research team, developed the Competency Model for Knowledge Translation to Support Educational Achievement among Quebec Youth. They then developed…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Galway, Gerald; Sheppard, Bruce – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
In this paper we compare the use of research and other evidence in the decision-making practices of two groups of education policy elites, situated in different contexts--provincial education ministries and school districts. Data are derived from two pan-Canadian studies: Galway (2006) and Sheppard, Galway, Brown and Wiens (2013). The findings…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Utilization, Evidence, Decision Making
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Stevenson, Michael; Hedberg, John G.; O'Sullivan, Kerry-Ann; Howe, Cathie – Professional Development in Education, 2016
In contemporary school settings, leaders seeking to support professional development are faced with many challenges. These challenges call for educators who can undertake professional learning that is continuous and adaptive to change. As a term, continuous professional development (CPD) reflects many different forms of professional development in…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Leadership Role, School Support, Mixed Methods Research
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Bajaj, Deepak – College Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of Competitive and Market Intelligence (CI/MI) Research as a potential source for improving the innovation capability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) leading to successful new product/services/processes/capabilities development (Cooper & Edgett, 2002). This report highlights the…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Capacity Building, Research and Development, Innovation
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Materia, Valentina Cristiana; Giarè, Francesca; Klerkx, Laurens – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to analyse the use of Communities of Practice and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to enhance knowledge sharing between researchers and advisors. The associated research question is to what extent ICT supported a virtual Community of Practice and has been effective in counteracting fragmentation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advisory Committees, Communities of Practice, Agricultural Education
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Mosomi, Biutha Manwa; Kindiki, Jonah N.; Boit, John M. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2014
Performance contracting has been acclaimed as an effective and promising means of improving the performance of public enterprises as well as government departments. The government of Kenya introduced performance contract signing in 2004. The aim of performance contracts was to improve resource utilization in public institutions among other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Contracts, Technical Institutes, Labor Utilization