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James Soland; William R. Penuel; Caitlin C. Farrell; Sarah Wellberg – Research Evaluation, 2024
Research practice partnerships (RPPs) are an increasingly popular approach for bringing together research and practice in ways that can improve and transform education. To date, however, evaluators have lacked measures to evaluate such partnerships. This paper describes a project to develop validity evidence for a survey to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Educational Research
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Scheibel, Gretchen; Zane, Thomas L.; Zimmerman, Kathleen N. – Exceptional Children, 2022
Schools bear the burden of funding the majority of the services received by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the assumption that spent resources will result in meaningful positive outcomes for these students. Interventions lacking empirical support remain popular in schools despite lacking or limited evidence that students will…
Descriptors: Program Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Research and Development
Century, Jeanne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Florida's Broward County Public Schools and the University of Chicago engaged in a Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) to scale teacher practices that support students' critical thinking. As part of the RPP, Jeanne Century's research team conducted research to determine what barriers might limit the spread of these practices. The findings show…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Program Effectiveness
Stephan Viehweg; Jere Odell; Ted Polley; Nouri McLucas – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis' (IUPUI's) Center for Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) and IUPUI University Library (Library) developed a partnership to enhance community access to faculty scholarship resulting from translational research. Library staff archives the scholarship of faculty affiliated with TRIP in IUPUI…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Translation, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development
Hipkins, Rosemary; Whatman, Jenny; Felgate, Rachel – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2018
This is the third report in the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) Project Plus series of analyses. It presents the findings from an exploratory investigation of the impacts of the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI). The investigation sought evidence of the extent to which TLRI is meeting its three core aims: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Projects, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Dwan, Kathryn Madonna; McInnes, Peter; Mazumdar, Soumya – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2015
Researchers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the impact of their research on policy. Unfortunately, evidence on what works is scarce because it is rarely reported and evaluated. This paper describes a programme of facilitated engagement between knowledge producers and users on topics of joint research and policy interest, and validates…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Utilization
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Hamre, Bridget K.; Partee, Ann; Mulcahy, Christina – AERA Open, 2017
Among all the factors that influence the success of preschool programs, none is more important than the quality of the teaching workforce. The design and delivery of effective approaches to professional development (PD) are central to the support of the early childhood education workforce. In this article, we provide a model outlining the PD…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Faculty Development, Educational Research
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Biag, Manuelito – School Community Journal, 2017
There is growing recognition that the traditional research paradigm fails to address the needs of school practitioners. As such, more collaborative and participatory approaches are being encouraged. Yet few articles examine the structures, processes, and dynamics of research-practice partnerships. To address this gap, this essay analyzes a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cooperation, Colleges, School Districts
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Crone, Deanne A.; Stoolmiller, Michael; Baker, Scott K.; Fien, Hank; Turtura, Jessica; Strand Cary, Mari; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Nelson, Nancy; Kame'enui, Edward J. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
We present the results of a study of local education agency (LEA)-based interventions to improve the reading outcomes of struggling readers in sixth grade. The sample included 1,076 intervention students and 3,644 comparison students. Regression discontinuity was used to evaluate intervention impact. The study contributes to the field by…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Grade 6, Middle School Students
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Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Taylor-Ritzler, Tina – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
A synthesis of the state of the literature is discussed in this section of the Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) forum organized around four critical questions: (1) What is ECB? (2) How can we make it happen? (3) How do we know it is happening? and (4) What is its impact? The authors argue that to move the field of ECB forward we need to envision…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Capacity Building, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Carol A. Kochhar-Bryant – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2017
Across the United States, doctoral programs in education are in deep reflection about their purpose, content, and expected outcomes for graduates. Many are in the throes of redesign and testing to better differentiate between two pathways to the doctorate--one for scholars preparing for research and academic roles and one for scholar-practitioners…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, College Faculty
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Reason, Robert D.; Gansemer-Topf, Ann M. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
Arguing that the first-year-experience and students-in-transition field is a mature industry, the authors assert that researchers and practitioners must re-examine currently held assumptions about student success. In particular, they propose that researchers should revisit the leading models used to study college impact in light of the changing…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Educational Research, College Freshmen
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Shah, Jennifer K.; Ensminger, David C.; Thier, Kimberly – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
The science-to-service problem continues to taunt the field of education (Fixsen, Blasé, Naoom, & Wallace, 2009). As an academic discipline, the field requires knowledge generation that adds to or deepens theoretical understandings. As a profession, knowledge generation that solves local problems and supports continuous improvement is…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Research
Supplee, Lauren H.; Metz, Allison – Society for Research in Child Development, 2014
Despite a robust body of evidence of effectiveness of social programs, few evidence-based programs have been scaled for population-level improvement in social problems. Since 2010 the federal government has invested in evidence-based social policy by supporting a number of new evidence-based programs and grant initiatives. These initiatives…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Social Problems, Evidence Based Practice, Intervention
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Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Adamson, Lena; Kumpfer, Karol L.; Eichas, Kyle – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2012
Background: Effectiveness research is maturing as a field within intervention and prevention science. Effectiveness research involves the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of the dissemination of evidence-based interventions in everyday circumstances (i.e., type 2 translational research). Effectiveness research is characterized by…
Descriptors: Evidence, Family Problems, Intervention, Effective Schools Research
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