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Waleed Sweileh – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: The study aims to analyze research trends and hotspots in the field of food and nutrition literacy to inform evidence-based policymaking, and promote the health and well-being of the general population. Design/methodology/approach: The Scopus database was used to retrieve relevant research articles using specific keywords related to food…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction, Health Promotion, Food
Lars Geschwind; Hampus Östh Gustafsson – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
This article analyses how the future has been discussed in Swedish higher education and research policy, providing an overview of public inquiries during the period 1970-2020. Expanding on the conceptual framework of German historian Reinhart Koselleck, the article approaches discourses on the future through the analytical lens of sociology of…
Descriptors: European History, Educational History, Higher Education, Research and Development
Howard Adelman; Linda Taylor – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2024
In this brief, we discuss embedding and framing the evolving literatures related to improvement and implementation sciences into a general intervention perspective. From that perspective, we sketch out some basic considerations related to improvement and implementation research, practice, and policy.
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Research and Development, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Kristin M. Villanueva – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The expectation for classroom educators to engage in evidence-based decision-making is standard protocol in most K-12 classrooms, yet translating educational research into effective practice is mired with implementation challenges. The research-practice partnership (RPP) model has emerged as a promising framework to support stakeholders as they…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Cooperation, Educational Policy
Parkhurst, Justin; Ghilardi, Ludovica; Webster, Jayne; Hoyt, Jenna; Hill, Jenny; Lynch, Caroline A. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Conceptualisations of what it means to use evidence in policymaking often appear divided between two extremes. On the one side are works presenting it as the implementation of research findings - particularly evaluations of intervention effect. In contrast stand theoretically informed works exploring the multiple meanings of evidence…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Research and Development
Ming, Norma C.; Goldenberg, Lauren B. – Review of Research in Education, 2021
This chapter calls for researchers to reconceptualize research quality from the perspective of its expected use, attending to power dynamics that influence how knowledge is defined, constructed, and validated through the research enterprise. Addressing these concerns when designing and conducting education research can yield more useful research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Research Utilization
Ball, Sarah; Feitsma, Joram – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Background: 'Behavioural Insights' has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to policy making in governments across the globe. Practitioners largely present a frontstage narrative of Behavioural Insights as a coherent concept but this article challenges such a description. Aims & objectives: This article aims to explore the ongoing…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Research Utilization, Foreign Countries, Research and Development
Dumont, Kimberly – William T. Grant Foundation, 2019
Every year the federal government spends more than $600 billion on grants to fund programs and services in education, social sectors, and health. When deliberating such commitments, policymakers weigh evidence from research, practice, and their own experience while also navigating political pressure, the demands of their constituents, and…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education), Theory Practice Relationship
Ion, Georgeta; Iftimescu, Simona; Proteasa, Carmen; Marin, Elena – Education Sciences, 2019
This study provides an insight into the challenges faced in establishing a closer collaboration between educational research and its use in the policy-making process. It aims to identify the factors influencing transfer from research to policy-making and the policy-makers' needs, expectations, and perception on the use of educational research.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Utilization, Policy Formation, Research and Development
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is committed to supporting the use of technology to improve teaching and learning and to support innovation throughout educational systems. This report addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge and developing policies for "Artificial Intelligence," a rapidly advancing class of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Policy
Natow, Rebecca S. – Teachers College Press, 2022
This book provides a comprehensive description of the federal government's relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive and indispensable over time. Drawing from constitutional law, social science research, federal policy documents, and original interviews with key policy insiders, the author explores the U.S.…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Role, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Julie Rosenthal; Emily Carlisle-Johnston; Timothy Turriff – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2021
Social annotation and role-play are two pedagogical approaches that promote active, student-centred learning. In this paper, we report on how the two approaches were combined in a senior-level university course that aimed to reveal the multiple dimensions and complexity of policy development and decision-making for natural resource management. We…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning
Ozolinš, Modris; Stensaker, Bjørn; Gaile-Sarkane, Elina; Ivanova, Liene; Lapina, Inga; Ozolina-Ozola, Iveta; Straujuma, Anita – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
This article addresses how European policy initiatives in higher education, research and innovation are diffused in the European higher education research and education area. Based on an instrumental and an institutional perspective, specific expectations are developed as to how policy diffusion might unfold, and, through an in-depth analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Higher Education
Alawa, David A.; Ajigo, Ikutal; Unimna, Fidelis; Udie, Elizabeth A.; Adie, John B. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This study determined policy initiatives for improving the contributions of university agricultural education and extension institutions to environmental and sustainable development (ESD) in agriculture. The study was carried out in Cross River State. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study of 534, comprising…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Agricultural Education, Higher Education, Sustainable Development
Brown, Chris – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2014
This paper examines notions of power in relation to evidence-informed policy making and explores four key areas. First, I outline contemporary conceptualisations of how power operates in society; second, I spotlight the implications of power inequalities for how evidence is used by policy makers (and present the policy "agora"; a…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Policy Formation, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship