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Ferguson, W. Ker – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This empirical study investigates the hypothesized relationship between US federally funded university research and development (R&D) and its resulting economic impact, as measured by the level of licensing revenue generated by US universities. The author also examines the key operating statistics of the top-ten licensing income-producing…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Research and Development, Income, Technology Transfer
Stephenson, Max, Jr. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
This article asks land grant university leaders and faculty to think of their role in community engagement not simply as the provision of technical assistance or of research and development prowess, but as an opportunity for social leadership. It explores the case of Virginia Tech's effort to develop a regionally based model to secure long-term…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Research Universities, Land Grant Universities, Economic Change
Kaiser, Ann P.; Roberts, Megan Y. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
Learning to communicate using speech and language is a primary developmental task for young children. Delays in the acquisition of language are one of the earliest indicators of developmental deficits that may affect academic and social outcomes for individuals across the life span. In the period since the passage of PL 99-457, significant…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Developmental Tasks, Language Acquisition
Whiting, John – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This paper outlines the prospects for research and development in the education and training fields offered by the European Communities. The position of the EC is explained in relation to the existing and forthcoming Framework Programmes of research and development. The 1987-91 Framework Programme has committed most of its funding to existing…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Technology, Educational Research, Technological Advancement
Kalinowski, Michael – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
The Children's Center, located in Honolulu, offers a full-day child care and preschool program for up to 125 children, ages two through five in one of seven classrooms. As part of the University community, the Children's Center is a site for students, faculty, and the community members to observe good practice in early childhood education and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Laboratory Schools, Effective Schools Research, Research and Development Centers
Wendler, Cathy; Powers, Donald – Educational Testing Service, 2009
Should individuals use a test for purposes other than those for which it was originally intended? Should they give it to groups of people other than those for whom it was originally designed? This issue of "Educational Testing Service (ETS) R&D Connections" provides ideas for repurposing tests. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Testing, Test Use, Educational Objectives
Universities UK, 2009
The UK research base is world class. It is second only to the USA on leading scientific indicators and crucially, during the current economic climate, ranks first on publication productivity and citations in relation to research and development public spend. Commonly known as quality-related (QR) funding because it is allocated selectively on the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Block Grants, Economic Climate
Reid, Denise; Babani, Harsha; Jon, Eugenia – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2009
Visual attention and visual search are the features of visual perception, essential for attending and scanning one's environment while engaging in daily occupations. This study describes the development of a novel web-based test of visual search. The development information including the format of the test will be described. The test was designed…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Attention, Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes
Finkelstein, Marv – Teaching Sociology, 2009
Though C. Wright Mills made a pivotal contribution to the discipline by raising sociologists' awareness of the ideological and bureaucratic content of sociological practicality, he may have placed unyielding limits on "the promise" he profoundly proclaimed in the "sociological imagination." By defining types of practicality in such rigidly…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Classification, Sociology, Teaching Methods
Salmonowicz, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
"Turnaround" has become the new buzzword in education. From states and districts paying for principals to be trained as turnaround specialists to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's call to turn around the country's 5,000 lowest-performing schools, the concept of rapid, large-scale reform in individual schools--not just incremental…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Urban, Jennifer Brown; Trochim, William – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
Program evaluation and planning is at the heart of efforts to integrate the domains of practice and research. Traditionally, research and practice have operated in independent spheres with practitioners focused on the implementation of programs that affect individual behavior and researchers focused on the development and testing of theory.…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Program Evaluation, Program Development
Craig, S. Bartholomew; Hess, Clara E.; McGinnis, Jennifer Lindberg; Gray, Denis O. – Industry and Higher Education, 2009
In spite of the importance often attached to the role played by leadership in university-based cooperative research centres, we know very little about what "leadership" means in this specific context. The research reported here used a qualitative approach to identify fifteen dimensions of leadership performance for directors of university-based…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Leadership Qualities, Administrator Effectiveness, College Faculty
Rigby, C. Scott; Przybylski, Andrew K. – Theory and Research in Education, 2009
Participation in expansive video games called "virtual worlds" has become a mainstream leisure activity for tens of millions of people around the world. The growth of this industry and the strong motivational appeal of these digital worlds invite a closer examination as to how educators can learn from today's virtual worlds in the development of…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Simulation, Self Determination, Social Theories
Porter, Andrew; McMaken, Jennifer – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Strengthening connections between research and practice is an important goal in education. Making the connection has both a supply side and a demand side but the demand is often ignored in education. The authors offer six hypotheses about why this situation occurs.
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Supply and Demand, Educational Change
The Effects of University Mergers in China since 1990s: From the Perspective of Knowledge Production
Mao, Ya-qing; Du, Yuan; Liu, Jing-juan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discover and better understand the efficiency of university mergers from the perspective of knowledge production, with the research capability as the point of contact. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 20 colleges and universities directly under the central ministries that merged in 2000 were taken as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Organizational Change, Research and Development