The policy of the Rehabilitation Services Administration is to encourage research and demonstration projects to involve users in appropriate roles in order to assure greater use of findings. This article stresses participatory planning and outlines the roles and responsibilities of both the researcher and the user in a research activity. (Author)

Congress began funding the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program in 1998 to stimulate whole school reform in low-achieving schools. Schools receiving CSRD funding are required to evaluate the reforms implemented and the student results achieved. In response to interest among educators and researchers, a national research…

Provides information on the federally sponsored National Diffusion Network and describes how one exemplary reading program was transferred to a school across the continent. (MKM)

From June 1972 through June 1975, the authors conducted an evaluation of the National Research Utilization Specialists (RUS) Demonstration Program. This five-year program installed an RUS in nine state vocational rehabilitation agencies to test the value of this innovative job function for getting new knowledge put to practical use. (Author)

Vocational rehabilitation agencies throughout the U.S. employed research utilization specialists as part of a national demonstration project. The nature and scope of this program's effort to link rehabilitation practitioners to research and other information is reported, including the RUS's goals, roles, and functions; training provided; skills…

Using a framework that draws upon current organizational theory and assumptions about knowledge utilization and school improvement this report examines the process of change at the school level. The model developed attempts both to categorize the "strategies" employed by the Research and Development Utilization (RDU) program/projects and…

Based on two papers presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting in 1981, this report provides an overview and major outcomes of a three-year study of the Research and Development Utilization (RDU) program. The RDU program tested and assessed a comprehensive model for assisting schools to use results of educational research…

This brief summary outlines the activities and findings of the research and development efforts of the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) from 1971 to 1976. The paper suggests that the original goals of the program were met and that the initial operating procedures agreed upon by KEEP and the Hawaii State Department of Education were…

This joint final report of nine Research Utilization Specialists (RUS) Demonstration projects conducted in state vocational rehabilitation agencies covers all aspects of the projects including resources used, roles and functions, dissemination and utilization strategies, and project outcomes. It is primarily a casebook, presenting specific…

To provide information that will facilitate the exchange of information between states and reduce duplication of effort, this report summarizes information received from State Research Coordinating Units (RCUs) regarding research activities conducted under section 131(b) of part C of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. This is the twelfth…

THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HELD A 2-DAY SEMINAR IN NOVEMBER 1966 IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TO POOL EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND IDEAS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS. THE PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTED THE OFFICE OF MANPOWER POLICY, EVALUATION, AND RESEARCH (OMPER), OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE MANPOWER…

This study reports an attempt to provide research consultation to the staff of an operating manpower project in order to help them initiate and carry out utilization-related activities and, as a by-product of the consultation effort, to add to knowledge about research utilization and suggest ways of helping funding agencies improve their…

This publication presents examples of research findings that are being put to practice to improve educational services to children with deaf-blindness. Each program description includes photographs and a highlight of key practices. Individual selections are: (1) "Early Intervention: Beginning with Babies" (Deborah Chen), which describes a project…

New models of research and training combined with dissemination techniques can contribute to relevant social change. The Ecological Psychology Program at Michigan State University, a graduate training program which focuses on model building and implementation research, offers ideas on the plausability of social programming. The process would…

A staff development project designed a publication for the effective statewide dissemination of significant current or previous Section 353 special demonstration projects in adult literacy education in Pennsylvania and for the provision of feedback to project directors about their project's strengths and weaknesses. During the project, 72 programs…