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David A. Julian; Melissa C. Ross; Kenyona N. Walker; Gabrielle C. Johnson; Ana-Paula Correia – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
In this case study we explore the concept of translational research: specifically, how common tools were employed in the context of the translational research process to design and implement a formal intervention to address racism at the individual and structural level. This approach to translational research focuses on the implementation of…
Descriptors: Racism, Land Grant Universities, Theory Practice Relationship, Intervention
Rude, Carolyn D. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2015
A field's identity and sustainability depend on its research as well as on programs, practice, and infrastructure. Research and practice have a reciprocal relationship, with practice identifying research questions and researchers answering those questions to improve practice. Technical communication research also has an exploratory purpose, using…
Descriptors: Communications, Research, Technical Writing, Program Development
Sabelli, Nora; Dede, Chris – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2013
This chapter discusses frameworks and conceptual lenses that help orient design-based implementation research (DBIR) work to the types of infrastructure required for success, while contributing to theories about the processes of educational improvement. Such infrastructures can be conceived as a framework: a set of interconnected elements that…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Instructional Design, Educational Research, Educational Improvement
Brock, Timothy R. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Development research methodology (DRM) has been recommended as a viable research approach to expand the practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice literature that human performance technology (HPT) practitioners can integrate into the day-to-day work flow they already use to develop instructional products. However, little has been written about how it…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Performance Technology, Program Development
Simm, Jo; Ingram, Rachel – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2008
This collaborative action research project involves two educational psychologists (EPs) working with teachers from four primary schools to develop the use of solution-focused approaches. The project illustrates a way in which EPs might make a distinctive contribution to improving outcomes for children and young people. Realist interviews were used…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Psychology, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
Elliott, John – 1989
The theory of action research is discussed in terms of how second-order action research can help theorists to clarify and deepen their understanding of action research. After a brief introduction, the paper examines methodological criteria governing a piece of action research conducted at an action research training workshop sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Program Development

Anderson, William G. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 1989
A review of eight studies that focus on physical education curriculums and programs illustrated a variety of research approaches in the areas of curriculum development, collaborative program development, program description, development process description, and program evaluation. (IAH)
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Hautecoeur, Jean Paul – 1991
This bilingual exploration of program-based research discusses research in the everyday life of literacy programs and is also an account of one practitioner's personal experience. The first part explains the concept of program-based research. The second part reports on the relative lack of research in this area and gives a brief analysis of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Literacy Education

Ramsay, R. F.; And Others – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1990
Compared Rothman's social research and development (R&D) method with procedure used to develop Suicide Prevention Training Programs in Alberta, Canada. Retrospective review found that Alberta method closely paralleled phases of Rothman's model and that transformation of knowledge about suicide into widely disseminated suicide prevention…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Foreign Countries, Human Services, Program Development
Taylor, Maurice – 2002
Based on a research project that sought to train instructors to conduct action research in a real-life context, this handbook was created to help literacy instructors to use action research in workplace education programs. The handbook is organized in three parts. The first part describes action research as a type of practice-based research. It…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
Lloyd, Betty-Ann; And Others – 1994
The experiences of Canadian women in adult basic education and literacy (ABEL) were examined in a national research project during which 2 contact women from each of 12 ABEL programs across Canada spend one-half day each week "researching" their program's "woman-positive" activities and the consequences of those activities for…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Agents
Pittman, Karen; Wilson-Ahlstrom, Alicia; Yohalem, Nicole – Forum for Youth Investment, 2003
On February 3, 2003, the Bush Administration unveiled its request to cut funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program by 40 percent in fiscal year 2004. This date also marked the administration's release of When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Learning Centers Program, First Year Findings, the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Theory Practice Relationship
van der Vegt, Rein; Knip, Hans – 1986
This paper analyzes a research project that maps implementation efforts of comprehensive and mandated change at the primary school level in The Netherlands. In examining this large-scale national reform program, the report deals with schools whose innovation efforts acquired funding from the central education department in return for their local…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Lloyd, Betty-Ann, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book contains 15 chapters that were written by women from 12 Canadian adult literacy and basic education programs who participated in an exploratory research project designed to document the process and results of woman-positive literacy work. The following sections are included: "Exploring the Concept of Woman-Positive within…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques
Henry, John; Mitchell, John; Young, Susan – 2001
Significant developments have occurred in the field of professional development (PD) in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector in the past 10 years. During the early 1990s, work-based learning (WBL) became the preferred model for PD in the VET sector. Research sponsored by the National Staff Development Committee of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Definitions, Educational Practices
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