1. Bringing Research to Practice
EER 2017 Mini-workshop
Hannah Scherer

2. Workshop Overview Orientation/ grounding for the session
Brainstorming Round 1: Barriers and Challenges
Existing models and theories
Brainstorming Round 2: Strategies
Wrap-up and next steps
Evaluation

3. Goals
Identify barriers to the flow of information from research publications to the classroom.
Identify existing opportunities and strategies that promote the use of education research findings in everyday instruction.
Develop new strategies and models that promote the use of education research findings in everyday instruction by addressing barriers.

4. Why did you decide to attend?
What is one example of using education research in your classroom or seeing your education research used in the classroom?

5. What are challenges/ barriers to implementing education research findings in practice?

6. Cooperative Extension
Applied research
Agents
Public

7. Rogers (2003); Image by Bryan Mathers (CC BY-ND 2.0)

9. Translational Research
Medicine
Basic research
Clinical research
Patients/ communities
Patient-oriented research
Population-based research
Basic research
Translational Research
(Rubio et al., 2010)

10. Community-based Participatory Research
Medicine
Basic research
Clinical research
Patients/ communities
“collaborative research approach that is designed to ensure and establish structures for participation by communities affected by the issue being studied, representatives of organizations, and researchers in all aspects of the research process to improve health and well-being through taking action, including social change.” (Viswanathan, et al., 2004)
Community-based Participatory Research

11. Prepare to share out a concrete idea
Identify…
Consider…
Solutions
Strategies
Recommendations
Audience
Format/ venue
Resources
Prepare to share out a
concrete idea

12. Geoscience Education Research and Practice Forum
NEXT!
Geoscience Education Research and Practice Forum
4:30 – 5:45 today
Ballroom C (this room!)
Keep the conversation going

13. References
Rogers, Everett (2003). Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition. Simon and Schuster. Rubio, D. M., Schoenbaum, E. E., Lee, L. S., Schteingart, D. E., Marantz, P. R., Anderson, K. E., Esposito, K. (2010). Defining Translational Research: Implications for Training. Academic Medicine, 85(3), doi: /ACM.0b013e3181ccd618 Vines, K. A. (2017). Engagement through cooperative extension: Towards understanding meaning and practice among educators in two state extension systems. (Doctor of Philosophy), The Pennsylvania State University. Viswanathan, M., Ammerman, A., Eng, E., Gartlehner, G., Lohr, K. N., Griffith, D., Whitener, L. (2004). Community-based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.