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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

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.

The School of Education maintains long-standing partnerships with school districts in the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area. District partners improve the quality of university programs by sending clinical professors to team-teach at CU-Boulder and by providing practicum and student teaching experiences for our students. Likewise, CU faculty members work with teachers on implementing research-based practices and evaluating curriculum and instruction. Partner districts also participate in the Partners in Education (PIE) program, which is a Master’s degree pathway for new teachers that offers extensive professional development with expert mentors

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.

In the new version, Tableau 8.2, people are encouraged to shift from making individual maps, bar charts and fever lines that illustrate information. Instead, Tableau has added a series of narrative boxes that go above each chart; clicked through in order, the charts should be better at using different data points to prove an overall case.

Data has moved from something that is painstakingly collected, stored and downloaded to something that more often automatically streams online.

we are starting to think of information in more dynamic ways, and need to visualize information as something that changes over time. That is a big change from a typical PowerPoint presentation, which presents data in more static ways.