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Direct linkNicholson, Laura J.; Warde, Carole M.; Boker, John R. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates published clinical evidence with patient values and clinical expertise, the output of which is informed medical decision making. Key skills for evidence-based practice include acquisition and appraisal of clinical information. Faculty clinicians often lack expertise in these skills and are…
Descriptors: Workshops, Needs Assessment, Medical Education, Faculty Development
Peer reviewedDervin, Brenda – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Explores the implications of articulating the bridges that are built, usually implicitly, between metatheory and method, and between these and their ultimate interests, the doing of research; the purpose is to articulate the uses of methodology. Suggests that there is lacking a vocabulary for talking about methodology which attends to the…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Seeking, Information Theory, Information Utilization
Download full textDunn, William N.; And Others – 1982
This report summarizes major findings and policy implications of a University of Pittsburgh project titled Methodological Research on Knowledge Use and School Improvement. The major emphasis has been methodological rather than substantive. The primary purpose has been to describe, evaluate, and recommend alternative concepts, methods, and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Methods, Educational Policy, Evaluation Methods
Dunn, William N.; And Others – 1982
This volume presents in one collection a systematic inventory of research and analytic procedures appropriate for generating information on knowledge production, diffusion, and utilization, gathered by the University of Pittsburgh Program for the Study of Knowledge Use. The main concern is with those procedures that focus on the utilization of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Policy, Instructional Development
Peer reviewedNahl, Diane – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Research in human-computer interaction is evolving a user-centered methodology for system design and instruction that focuses on integrating affective and cognitive user variables to increase productivity, creativity, and human growth. Discussion includes the survey approach, the experimental-ethnographic approach; theory-building; and the future…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Interfaces, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer System Design
Miguel, Richard J.; Bhaerman, Robert D. – 1987
The research division of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education received a 5-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to conduct a research program on youth employability. To increase the use of the research findings, the National Center created the Knowledge Development and Utilization (KDU) project in 1983 as part of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Planning
