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develop a set of survey measures, interview protocols, observation protocols, and qualitative coding guides that will focus on research use

In this 18-month comparative case study, four districts will be selected and followed to investigate their decision-making processes. Each district will have different research use characteristics: (1) one will be low on connections to outside sources of research and low on organizational routines and tools that enable research use; (2) the second will be low on connections to outside sources of research and high on organizational routines and tools that enable research use; (3) that the third will be high on connections to outside sources of research and low on organizational routines and tools that enable research use; and (4) is the fourth will be high on connections to outside sources of research and high on organizational routines and tools that enable research use.

examine purposeful attempts to increase research use by promoting greater interaction between researchers and practitioners

the situations in which people may use research evidence typically place people in relation to others.

the use of research evidence requires acts of meaning-making and judgment from the people who must interpret this evidence, determine its significance and relevance, and discern contexts for its potential implementation.

Trust appeared not as a precondition or an outcome of their deliberations, but as an activity that unfolded through deliberations.