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Improving Student Learning: A Strategic Plan for Education Research and Its Utilization
Improving Student Learning: A Strategic Plan for Education Research and Its Utilization
Pages 87-98
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Committee on a Feasibility Study for a Strategic Education Research Program Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education National Research Council NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, DC 1999
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WOLK, Consultant in Education and Media Relations, Warwick, Rhode Island BRUCE M ALBERTS (ex officios, President, National Academy of Sciences; Chair, National Research Council ALEXANDRA K
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In 1996 the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (henceforth, the Academies) , launched a study to determine the feasibility of mounting a long-term, strategic program of research focused on a limited number of topics judged to be of crucial importance for improving student learning in the nation's schools.
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Therefore, the committee proposes a fourth and overarching research question: · How can the use of research knowledge be increased in schools and school districts? This question, expressed variously as knowledge utilization or knowledge mobilization, raises issues about the preparation of teachers so that they can be consumers of research, about the design of schools to create effective learning environments, and about bringing policy into alignment with new strategies for teaching and learning.
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Each network will include distinguished researchers working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers and supported by a national coalition of public and private funding organizations and other stakeholders, including legislators, state education agencies, teacher associations, organizations representing the research community, and other groups. Members of the four SERP networks would conduct research designed to help answer each network's hub question.
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Department of Education and the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board have constructed a broad framework for education research, identifying seven broad challenges that warrant public investment. All these efforts continue to make important contributions to the nation's education, but they do not rigorously focus the nation's knowledge, resources, and energies in order to improve student learning.
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This strategic focus will help harness the nation's powerful intellectual resources and expertise, making the networks more productive, more closely linked to classroom practice, and more accountable for demonstrable progress. · Collaborative Finding answers to each of the hub research questions will require the combined insights of many fields including cognitive functioning, social processes, and organizational change as well as the deployment of the full array of research methods.
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centers; by the National Science Foundation through its cognitive research program, its new technology and learning centers, its Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) ; and by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, which has a strong program of research on the mechanisms of cognition and learning.
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A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH 97 government in particular, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation major foundations whose mission includes improving education, state and local education leaders, and education research organizations to join the Academies in this year of dialogue to see if, together, we can transform the SERP idea into a productive collaboration to use the power of science to improve education in the United States.
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