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Ross, Catharine; Nichol, Lynn; Elliott, Carole; Sambrook, Sally; Stewart, Jim – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Interdisciplinary working plays an important role in achieving impact outside academia. One barrier to interdisciplinary working is the lack of mechanisms to assess contributions from outside the primary discipline. Positioning our research in debates about knowledge translation, we analyse the ability of narrative cases to assess the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Labor Force Development, Case Studies, Research Utilization
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Voogt, J.; Knezek, G.; Cox, M.; Knezek, D.; ten Brummelhuis, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
"Under which conditions does ICT have a positive effect on teaching and learning?" This was the leading question of the International EDUsummIT in The Hague, the Netherlands. The bases for the discussion were the scholarly findings of the International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, a synthesis of research…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education
Frechtling, Joy A., Ed. – 1995
Papers in this collection explore alternative and nontraditional approaches to evaluation. They provide options, speculations, and propositions that affect each thinker's ideas on how to trace the impact of National Science Foundation-supported programs. Organized around a central theme of footprints as evidence of a program's impact, the papers…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Information Dissemination, Innovation
FEINBERG, HARRIET – 1966
AN EVALUATION OF THE WORK AND PLANS OF THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ON EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENCES WAS PRESENTED THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS WITH THE POLICY BOARD MEMBERS PROJECT DIRECTORS, AND FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. THE INTERVIEWS WERE FOCUSED ON THE QUESTION OF "HOW CAN THE CENTER…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Information Dissemination
Klein, Susan – 1997
The leadership role of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in developing a System of Expert Panels to identify and share promising and exemplary products, programs. and practices is discussed. The System of Expert Panels should enable the Federal government to help the public learn about replicable research and development…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Federal Government, Government Role
Research Exchange, 1998
These twelve issues (3 years) of the newsletter of the National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR) present articles summarizing outcomes of National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) research projects. Articles from Volume 1 include: "What Are the True Outcomes of Research"; "Self…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Gray, Peter J. – 1984
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's (NWREL) Research Evaluation Program provides assistance to educators based on its research, development, testing, and training activities concerning new methodologies for educational evaluation. This report describes the assistance provided to educational practitioners in 1984 through support materials,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Topping, Jim; Myers, Ed – 1979
The applicability and validity of NCHEMS' Information Exchange Procedures (IEP) to major research universities are examined. IEP enables peer institutions to compare information about their resources. The major research universities formed a task group to determine the use of IEP's focus points: costing methods and possible alternative approaches…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Definitions, Educational Finance
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1979
This document presents the plan for the conduct of eight case studies of federally and state-administered demonstration projects to assess the usefulness and practicality of a monograph discussing the improvement and measurement of the impact of vocational education demonstration projects. An introduction discusses the background and purpose of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Criteria, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement
Buttram, Joan L.; And Others – 1992
The effectiveness of four technical assistance-oriented services/products of one regional educational laboratory was studied. The services/products studied included a thinking skills activities workbook for classroom teachers, a videotape for rural educators on exemplary software for developing the thinking skills of at-risk students, a research…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shallcross, Tony; Loubser, Callie; Le Roux, Cheryl; O'Donoghue, Rob; Lupele, Justin – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2006
This paper focuses on a British Council funded Higher Education Link project involving three institutions--Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the UK and two South African institutions, the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Rhodes University. The link is a research and development project that has three main research strands:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Sustainable Development, Teacher Education
Halle, James W. – 1993
This paper presents a functional approach to assessment and associated program development for individuals with severe disabilities, with emphasis on informal strategies that target beginning communicative levels. In the first section, form, function, and context (three components of any communicative act) are defined and described. Three…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Decision Making