RESEACH MEDIATION IN EDUCATION Amanda Cooper amanda.cooper@utoronto.ca RESEACH MEDIATION IN EDUCATION CSSE April 8, 2011 AMANDA COOPER Research Supporting Practice in Education: www.oise.utoronto.ca/rspe
Research Question What is the nature and impact of the work of Canadian intermediaries in knowledge mobilization in education?
Amanda Cooper amanda.cooper@utoronto.ca RESEARCH MEDIATION RESEARCH PRODUCTION KM INTERMEDIARIES RESEARCH USE KM SOCIAL CONTEXT TIME Research Supporting Practice in Education: www.oise.utoronto.ca/rspe
RESEARCH MEDIATION SOCIAL CONTEXT KM INTERMEDIARIES TIME SOCIAL CONTEXT RESEARCH USE RESEARCH PRODUCTION KM INTERMEDIARIES TYPE OF ORGANIZATION Gov’t Non-Profit For Profit Membership 2. ORGANIZATIONAL FEATURES Mission Scope Target Audience Size Resources Membership Composition 3. KM PROCESSES Message Strategies Dissemination Mechanism 4. IMPACT Measurement & Evaluation
A Metric To Measure KM Efforts STRATEGIES INDICATORS Products Events Networks Extra Strategies INDICATOR TOTAL Different types 3 6 5 /20 Ease of use 2 4 /14 Accessibility /16 Audience Focus /10 Extra Indicators 8 /12 STRATEGY TOTAL /72 Interrater Reliability Testing of Tool: Intraclass Correlation= .799 3 raters per organization for 9 orgs (20% of KMIs Sample)
Types of Canadian KMIs
44 KMIs ACROSS CANADA
Amanda Cooper amanda.cooper@utoronto.ca 1960 1990 1980 1970 2000 Amanda Cooper amanda.cooper@utoronto.ca The Rise of Canadian KM Intermediaries Pre- 1960s 2 CEA CD Howe 4 1960 4 LDAC LDAO CMEC 1970 AERO HANEN FRASER CMEC 1980 6 10 CCPA LCBN CCBR LDANS CRRU SK Lit 1990 LitBC P4E CODE SAEE TLP EQAO AIMS Galileo CPRN MCLE 2000 18 LEARN CCKM CEED CSC HELP CCL ORION RSPE MERN SQE PREVNet Harris SKE-EDU E-Best ERESB EYEON Research Impact Research Supporting Practice in Education: www.oise.utoronto.ca/rspe
Organizational Features
Size & Resources KMI Size (FTE) n Min Max Mean Mode Small (1-10 FTE) Most KMIs are small (63%) Future Analysis of Roles, % of Dedicated KM staff, in relation to KM efforts in various areas KMI Size (FTE) n Min Max Mean Mode Small (1-10 FTE) 26 1 10 5 3 Medium (11-19 FTE) 4 11 14 12 Large (20+ FTE) 13 20 77 41 30
Revenue & Expenditures Many of the KMIs are Revenue Generating Operating Expenses KMI Size n Min ($) Max ($) Mean ($) Small 7 400,000 1,526,204 984,811 Large 9 3,145,389 12,814,746 7,980,067 KMI Size n Min ($) Max ($) Mean ($) Small 7 150,000 2,044,892 867,063 Large 9 2,137,898 20,583,490 7,569,696
KM PROCESSES
Use of Online Strategies RSS feed, blog, online forum, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, YouTube
Social Media
Social Media: Frequency & Nature Opinion: “Are parents really partners in education? Should they be?” Promotion: “Last chance to register for our conference” Information: “Premier’s arts awards tonight” Update: “Just watched waiting for Superman”. Research Based: “StatsCan: Canadian drop out rate declining. Drop out highest in AB, MB, QC, lowest in NL, BC, ON http://ning.it/a2auTU”
IMPACT
Measuring Impact? Most KMIs don’t report any impact measures
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