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This discussion will be geared toward professional development practitioners
and discuss the lessons learned during the course of NCSALL's journey in
disseminating adult education research, connecting it to practice and and
enhancing its usefulness. Cris Smith, who authored the article of the same
name in FOB 8C, will lead this discussion. She is the former deputy director of
NCSALL.
Cristine Smith was NCSALL's deputy director and was the research director
for the NCSALL Professional Development Study. She also served as the
national coordinator of dissemination research and development initiatives
over NCSALL's 10 years (the Practitioner Dissemination and Research Network
(PDRN) and Connecting Practice, Policy and Research (CPPR) initiatives),
designed to help practitioners access, understand, judge and use research.
She holds an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, and she is
currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for International Education
at UMass Amherst.
Effective Research Dissemination: Lessons from NCSALL
by Cristine Smith, Mary Beth Bingman, & Kaye Beall
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
has conducted and shared its research with the goal of having an impact on
the quality of instruction and service to adult learners. Over the past 10
years, NCSALL has tried a variety of approaches to disseminating their
research in ways that will help to reach this goal. This article revisits
this journey and shares some lessons that were learned along the way.
Connecting Research and Practice: A look at what is known about research utilization and what NCSALL does in that regard
by Barbara Garner, Beth Bingman, John Comings, Karen Rowe, & Cristine Smith
This article, from 2001, describes NCSALL's efforts so far to connect research to practice.
Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney@worlded.org
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