Translating Research for Educational Change

Catalog description

Teaches educators how to translate research to promote educational change in their schools and districts. Three concepts emerge to empower practitioners to translate research to their individual schools and communities: (1) a needs assessment to understand the context (student population, community, networks); (2) an emphasis on the generalizability of research to provide an understanding of which findings are most applicable to specific contexts at which times and under which conditions; and (3)explicit training on ways of knowing to encourage practitioners to develop their own theoretical perspectives and test them against the academic research.