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Joanne Gleeson; Jess Harris; Blake Cutler; Brooke Rosser; Lucas Walsh; Mark Rickinson; Mandy Salisbury; Connie Cirkony – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Increasingly, there are expectations internationally that schools will use research to inform their improvement initiatives. Within this context, this paper brings together findings from two large-scale Australian studies - the Monash Q Project and the University of Newcastle's Quality Teaching Rounds Project - to explore educators' patterns of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Educational Research, Access to Information
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Matthew Harper; Kathleen Smithers – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
While research into PhD programs and doctoral students' experiences has increased in recent years, fieldwork is overlooked as a source of learning and support. In education, the focus of this paper, fieldwork remains laced with notions of the anthropologist gathering data in a place that is not their own, which narrowly construct the role of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Field Studies, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
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Danni Hamilton; Lauren Hansen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Within the context of Australian higher education, Open Educational Practice (OEP) requires a collective response from researchers and practitioners to instantiate novel, sustainable, scalable, and evidence-informed educational practices. This article outlines practice-led research's (PLR) role in educational research in open education and its…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Research, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Magdalena Kersting; Jackie Bondell; Rolf Steier; Mark Myers – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have the potential to transform astronomy education practices profoundly: new forms of visual representations, perceptual engagement and embodied participation promise authentic learning experiences in formal and informal learning spaces. While a growing body of research studies the educational needs and…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Astronomy, Science Education, Research and Development
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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
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Sim, Timothy; Austin, Michael; Abdullah, Fazlin; Chan, Tak Mau Simon; Chok, Martin; Ke, Cui; Epstein, Irwin; Fisher, Mike; Joubert, Lynette; Julkunen, Ilse; Ow, Rosaleen; Uggerhøj, Lars; Wang, Samuel; Webber, Martin; Wong, Keith; Yliruka, Laura – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caseworkers, Social Work, Research and Development
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Fraser, Kym; Tseng, Tzu-Liang Bill; Deng, Xin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
This study explores the usefulness of academic research to engineering practitioners. Issues such as knowledge transfer, the research-practice gap and the changing social/political environment are discussed. An empirical survey of practitioners is analysed to better understand the engineering professions use of academic material, such as research…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Research and Development
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Pettman, Tahna Lee; Armstrong, Rebecca; Waters, Elizabeth; Allender, Steven; Love, Penelope; Gill, Tim; Coveney, John; Boylan, Sinead; Booth, Sue; Bolton, Kristy; Swinburn, Boyd – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2016
Coordinated systems are required to ensure evidence-informed practice and evaluation of community-based interventions (CBIs). Knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) strategies show promise, but these require evaluation. This paper describes implementation and evaluation of COOPS, a national KTE platform to support best practice in obesity…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development
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Brennan, Sue E.; Cumpston, Miranda; Misso, Marie L.; McDonald, Steve; Murphy, Matthew J.; Green, Sally E. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2016
The Policy Liaison Initiative (PLI) is a long-term knowledge translation initiative designed to support the use of Cochrane systematic reviews in health policy. A joint initiative between the Australasian Cochrane Centre and Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, the PLI includes: 1) a community of practice for evidence-informed…
Descriptors: Program Design, Formative Evaluation, Policy, Health
Simon, Linda; Beddie, Francesca M. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This document explains the VET Applied Research Developmental Framework, created as part of a project that explored how the vocational education and training (VET) sector could broaden its engagement in Australia's research and development (R&D) and innovation systems. Achieving this engagement will rely significantly on building the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Research and Development, Innovation
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Mitchell, Donna Mathewson – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
Visual arts teachers engage in complex work on a daily basis. This work is informed by practical knowledge that is rarely examined or drawn on in research or in the development of policy. Focusing on the work of secondary visual arts teachers, this article reports on a research program conducted in a regional area of New South Wales, Australia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Arts, Art Education, Teaching Methods
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Smith, Erica; Clayton, Berwyn – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
This paper is a preliminary investigation of the place that theory plays in vocational education and training (VET) research. Vocational education and training is an academic discipline, whose theory base has not previously been analysed in detail. The VET research community considers itself to be somewhat undervalued both by the broader education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship
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Newman, Lareen; Biedrzycki, Kate; Patterson, Jan; Baum, Fran – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2011
This paper describes a partnership between researchers and policy actors that was developed within a short timeframe to produce a rapid appraisal case study of a government policy initiative--South Australia's "Social Inclusion Initiative"--for the Social Exclusion Knowledge Network of the international Commission on Social Determinants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Kandlbinder, Peter – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
"Higher Education Research & Development" ("HERD") was established to address a perceived gap in higher education publishing: research of interest to practitioners that was engagingly written. After 30 years of contributing to the field, "HERD" has constructed a unique position for itself among higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Periodicals, Theory Practice Relationship
Stanwick, John; Hargreaves, Jo – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This guide describes the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) approach to measuring impact using examples from its own case studies, as well as showing how to maximise the impact of applied social science research. Applied social science research needs to demonstrate that it is relevant and useful both to public policy and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Social Science Research, Outcome Measures
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