Examines various factors creating conflicts and misunderstandings among practitioner researchers and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), describing the meaning of research, ethical difficulties arising from practitioner research, what makes IRBs obstructive, improvements in relations between IRBs and practitioner researchers, and the need to deal…

Discusses the limitations of current databases documenting the prevalence and effects of child exposure to domestic violence and describes a model for the collection of reliable and valid prevalence data, the Spousal Assault Replication Program, which uses data collected by the police and university researchers. (SLD)

Spindler, an anthropologist, contends that ethnography is a discipline that seeks to describe and understand cultural experiences of others. Hammond, a teacher educator, maintains that practitioners can adapt ethnographic tools to solve practice-related problems. (Author/SK)

Presents a model of institutional research as comprising three tiers of organizational intelligence: (1) technical/analytical intelligence, (2) issues intelligence, and (3) contextual intelligence. The model suggests that institutional researchers need different kinds of knowledge and skills to fulfill their many roles and tasks. (DB)

Presents a strategy for advancing research in clinical nursing: create a research practitioner position, develop and plan an ongoing research program, improve nurses' research expertise, obtain funding, and foster collaboration between academic and clinical staff. (SK)

Interviews with four prolific business education researchers identified facets of scholarly productivity. They adhered to regular writing routines, wrote at home instead of the office, and used prewriting strategies such as extensive reading and outlining. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)

This paper offers a case study of the origins, emergence, and evolution of the term "cumulative record" as the name for the means by which B. F. Skinner brought his behavior under the control of his subject matter. Our methods included on-line searches, reviews of Skinner's publications, and journal codings and counts. The results reveal that the…

The principle of reason "as principle of grounding, foundation or institution" has tended to guide the science of research toward techno-practical ends. From this epistemic superintendence of the terms of knowledge and inquiry, there has arisen the traditional notion of academic responsibility that is tied to the pursuit of truth via a conception…

This paper provides insight into how school-based research teams and external researchers conceptualize and act in their roles as coresearchers. The observations and experiences of school-based and external research team members and lead researchers provided the data for this paper. All were Queensland-based educators involved in researching the…

A survey was conducted to determine the response to the question regarding the barriers to the performance of research in predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUI). More than 80 percent of the responses stressed that the performance of research in their institutions suffered due to lack of time and the multiple demands on faculty at…

According to researchers, the ability to engage teachers and students in the data analysis process helps them to understand the complexities involved in the task. The flexibility of the strategies used in the process are examined by analyzing the experience of student researchers and teacher researchers.

Researchers looking to tap into the treasure troves of long-term student-achievement data that states and districts are starting to pile up say their efforts are increasingly running up against a decades-old federal law designed to protect student privacy. "More and more people are starting to look into questions of the federal…

The author of this article reports in late January 2006, a group of scholars announced the formation of a federally-backed professional society that will focus solely on advancing scientifically rigorous studies in education. The society, which is known as Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has caused ripples of controversy among…

Action research is a systematic approach used by practitioners to conceive questions and control methodologies, and to explore classroom or school-based problems. Action research is the perfect marriage of theory and practice. Recent trends in education, such as professional development schools, data-driven decision making, and undergraduate…

The manner in which Marco, one of the less proficient readers in his class, is profoundly influenced by opportunities to observe and interact with other readers and writers is discussed. Marco's story illustrates the importance of close observation of learners as teacher researchers come to understand young readers.