Using Research to Inform Practice Through Research-Practice Partnerships: A Systematic Literature Review
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Using Research to Inform Practice Through Research-Practice Partnerships: A Systematic Literature Review
Abstract/Description
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) have drawn a great deal of attention as promising structures for bringing educational research and practice closer together. However, promising as RPPs may be, challenges still exist and there have been calls for studies investigating how research can be used within RPPs, and how to include practitioners more in the generation of research evidence. We address these calls by conducting a systematic review of the research literature on RPPs. Our review of 57 articles shows that research is used in various ways to inform both the methods and content for facilitating school improvement in RPPs. For instance, research on effective PD can be directly applied to a Professional Development (PD) programme to inform the methods of the intervention, or research findings can be used as the content of an intervention to facilitate teacher learning. Moreover, the results suggest that the type of research used to inform RPPs affects the kinds of opportunities for research use that are presented to practitioners; ranging from applying research directly to practice (instrumental use), to using research to extend understanding (conceptual use), or using research methods and methodologies in order to increase practitioners’ capacity for improving education (process use). Based on the results, we argue that the presented opportunities for research use in interventions strongly affect teachers’ opportunities to participate in the generation of research evidence and thereby achieve a more democratised evidence system.
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Date
In publication
Volume
10
Issue
1
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Synthesis/Overview
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
2049-6613
Citation
Sjölund, S., Lindvall, J., Larsson, M., & Ryve, A. (2022a). Using Research to Inform Practice Through Research-Practice Partnerships: A Systematic Literature Review. Review of Education, 10(1), e3337. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3337
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