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Steve Zuiker

William T Grant > News - Trust and the Use of Research Evidence - 0 views

  • 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.
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  • levels of trust in relationships among decision-makers—as well as between decision-makers and others, like support staff, who provide them information for decision-making—influence their receptivity to all types of evidence, including research evidence
  • I have considered practices that deliberators may pursue to build trust in their relationships: flexibility, forthrightness, engagement, and heedfulness.  Practicing flexibility entails treating other positions as potentially reasoned and justifiable.  Forthrightness consists of speaking honestly and sincerely.  Engagement means learning about perspectives and positions different from one’s own.  Heedfulness involves committing oneself to decisions reached through deliberation.
Steve Zuiker

IES National Center for Research on Policy & Practice - 1 views

  • 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
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  • a mixed-method, cross-case design to examine three different types of research-practitioner partnerships: research alliances; design research partnerships; and networked improvement communities
Steve Zuiker

Penuel, Briggs, Harvard, Northwestern Awarded $5M for National Center for Research in P... - 1 views

  • Professors Bill Penuel (EPSY) and Derek Briggs (REM) have received a $5 million grant to create and lead a new National Center for Research in Policy and Practice, together with colleagues Cynthia Coburn, of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education; Heather Hill, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and James Spillane of the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.
  • a new center that will study how educational leaders—including school district supervisors and principals—use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.
  • focusing on three areas: measuring current research use in schools, identifying what conditions affect when research is used, and determining ways that research could be made more meaningful for educational leaders through long-term partnerships between researchers and practitioners.
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