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Free, Rhona; Griffith, Suzanne; Spellman, Bill – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
This chapter delineates the consortial activities of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) to explore models of undergraduate research and to address the impact of undergraduate research on faculty workload. The significant progress made on the member campus of the University of Wisconsin-Superior over the last 10 years is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Educational Research
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Woolfrey, Lynn; Fry, Jane – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2015
This article examines the management of microdata collections in a university context. It is a cross-country analysis: Collection management at data services in Canada and South Africa are considered. The case studies are of two university sub-contexts: One collection is located in a library; the other at a Faculty-based Data Service. Stages in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Materials, Library Development, Academic Libraries
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Antelo, Absael – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2012
Strategies used by institutions of higher learning for the internationalization of research represent a new reality in their operations. Universities actually use a variety of strategies to achieve some degrees of campus internationalization and their activities are limited to exchanges of students, faculty, and academic staff. Few institutions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Projects, Educational Strategies, Leadership
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McCallin, Antoinette; Nayar, Shoba – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
Changes in the funding and delivery of research programmes at the university level have, in recent years, resulted in significant changes to research supervision. This paper critically reviews key influences effecting postgraduate supervision. Analysis draws on literature spanning 2000-2010 to determine the appropriateness of traditional models of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Supervision, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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Urquhart, Robin; Porter, Geoffrey A.; Grunfeld, Eva – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Knowledge brokering (KB) may be one approach of helping researchers and decision makers effectively communicate their needs and abilities, and move toward increased use of evidence in health care. A multidisciplinary research team in Nova Scotia, Canada, has created a dedicated KB position with the goal of improving access to quality colorectal…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Health Services, Cancer
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Ward, Kristin J.; Maher, Erin J.; Marcynyszyn, Lyscha A.; Ellis, Mei Ling K.; Pecora, Peter J. – Child Welfare, 2011
This article examines the importance of context in evaluative inquiry. Following guidelines from real-world and utilization-focused evaluation frameworks, four projects are described to illustrate one foundation's pragmatic approach to evaluation that values collaboration, methodological appropriateness, and utilization. The authors contend that…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Evaluation Methods, Context Effect, Models
Jensen, Richard; Thursby, Jerry; Thursby, Marie C. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This paper presents a theoretical model of faculty consulting in the context of government and industry funding for research within the university, which then frames an empirical analysis of the funding and consulting of 458 individual faculty inventors from 8 major US universities. In the theory, firms realize that they free ride on government…
Descriptors: Research, Higher Education, Research Projects, Financial Support
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Tur, Simone Ulalka; Blanch, Faye Rosas; Wilson, Christopher – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2010
The notion of Indigenous epistemologies and "ways of knowing" continues to be undervalued within various academic disciplines, particularly those who continue to draw upon "scientific" approaches that colonise Indigenous peoples today. This paper will examine the politics of contested knowledge from the perspective of three…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Epistemology
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Subreenduth, Sharon; Rhee, Jeong-eun – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2010
As im/migrant researchers of color working and living in the USA, we begin this article by discussing how our own transnational selves and research have created tensions with the normalized use of socially constructed and theorized categories and differences in US qualitative research practices. We theorize an alternative reflexive mode of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Researchers, Immigrants, Migrants
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Kirshner, Ben; Polman, Joseph L. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2013
Applied researchers, whether working with the framework of design-based research or intervention science, face a similar implementation challenge: practitioners who enact their programs typically do so in varied, context-specific ways. Although this variability is often seen as a problem for those who privilege fidelity and standardization, we…
Descriptors: Researchers, Cooperation, Program Implementation, Intervention
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2009
This paper outlines a possible approach to implementing the Social Entrepreneurship initiative, focused on building a body of research-proven program models/strategies, and scaling them up, so as to produce major progress in education, poverty reduction, crime prevention, and other areas. The paper summarizes the rationale for this approach, then…
Descriptors: Poverty, Crime, Models, Crime Prevention
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Hannon, Natasha Patrito; Taraban-Gordon, Svitlana – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
Graduate students aspiring to become faculty members should be provided with meaningful opportunities to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and to formulate questions about student learning and effective teaching. To this end, teaching and learning centres should incorporate SoTL-oriented components within the framework of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Scholarship, Models, Educational Development
Ghisla, Gianni; Bausch, Luca; Bonoli, Lorenzo – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
Multi- and interdisciplinary education is a major postulate in the Swiss school system and has considerable weight in educational programs and learning objectives, both in compulsory school and at the upper secondary school level. However, materializing this postulate still poses problems at the political and institutional level, where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Definitions, Educational Practices
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Jackson, Adele; Conteh, Jean – Education 3-13, 2008
This article discusses some of the processes and findings of a small-scale research project, which aimed to investigate how an arts education practitioner could contribute to the development of a global dimension in the Key Stage 2 (KS2) art curriculum. Through a close analysis of aspects of the project, we explore what it means to attempt to…
Descriptors: Global Education, Art Education, Curriculum, Primary Education
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Peters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
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