While some members of Rand view policy-makers as their primary audience and
the scholarly community as secondary, a large number see the relationship the
other way around. There are some serious questions as to whether the Rand ...
Computers and telecommunications have revolutionized the processes of scientific research. How is this information technology being applied and what difficulties do scientists face in using information technology? How can these difficulties be overcome? Information Technology and the Conduct of Research answers these questions and presents a variety of helpful examples. The recommendations address the problems scientists experience in trying to gain the most benefit from information technology in scientific, engineering, and clinical research.
The report is directed to two principal audiences. One audience includes the
policymakers and leaders of those institutions responsible for the support and
management of research. For this audience, the Panel describes issues and ...
It will enable those political candidates who are less well off financially to afford to
reach an audience; likewise, the political candidate can focus his message on a
specific audience for maximum impact and even determine audience reaction.
The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) is the principal federal agency supporting applied research, training, and development to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities. NIDRR's mission is to generate new knowledge and promote its effective use in improving the ability of persons with disabilities to perform activities of their choice in the community, as well as to expand society's capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations for its citizens with disabilities. NIDRR prides itself on being proactive in establishing program performance measures and developing accountability data systems to track the progress of its grantees. An electronic annual reporting system is used to collect data from grantees on many aspects of grant operation and outputs. Various formative and summative evaluation approaches have been used to assess the quality of the performance and results of the agency's research portfolio and its grantees. Prompted by the need to provide more data on its program results, in 2009 NIDRR requested that the National Research Council (NRC) conduct an external evaluation of some of the agency's key processes and assess the quality of outputs produced by NIDRR grantees (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 2009a). Review of Disability and Rehabilitation Research presents the results of that evaluation.
For example, the target audience was unclear; the information was not targeted
to the audience identified; it was unclear how the audience would use the output;
or the voice, content, or format was not consumer-friendly or not of high quality.
This book sets out technological research topics designed to facilitate and expand distributed work--including telecommuting, working while mobile, and working in geographically distributed teams. The book's recommendations for computing and communications infrastructure center on the provision and use of bandwidth--or the speed of communications. Concurrent applications research should be focused on ease of use and interoperability of the multitude of devices and programs that currently are needed to engage in distributed work.
Some possibilities, with widely differing bandwidth requirements, might include
the following: • Dynamically creating a single video data stream with the " audience" incorporated into the image. This would allow, for example, each
participant in ...
Therefore, NIOSH is interested in learning whether the information it provides
was used to effect positive change in the workplace, whether it was packaged
appropriately for the intended audience, and whether it reached the target audience.
The workshop summary provides guidance for researchers applying to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding. New NSF guidelines require applications to address the "broader impact" of the proposed research. Presentations at the workshop provided ideas on how to do this by engaging in undergraduate education, K-12 education or public outreach via museums or journalists. The workshop summary discusses issues to consider in choosing an appropriate collaborator for the education or outreach component of the project and how to build in methods for assessing the success of the project. It also provides lists of resources helpful in writing education proposals and discusses the similarities between research in education and scientific research.
CONSIDERING A TARGET AUDIENCE In considering how to engage members
of the public in an understanding of science, Kastens suggested that “
researchers ask themselves why they think that the public should care about their
research.
Later, a modified version of the software was developed to enable researchers to
use the complete dataset (60 practices). Although it may be possible for some of
these linkages to be performed as a single query it is generally best to do a ...
SOURCE: Data from 1996 Council of Chief State School Officers Fall State
Student Assessment Program Survey. effect is consistent for members of the two
groups. Researchers. 22 EQUIVALENCY AND LINKAGE OF EDUCATIONAL
TESTS.
There is good evidence that intoxication may seriously impair such important
skills as comprehension and retention of newly presented educational materials (
Institute of Medicine, l982). Rapidly growing tissues have been shown to be ...
