Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie W. Cawthon ◽  
Carrie Lou Garberoglio ◽  
Peter C. Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Deaf Education ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
The Invisible

This chapter marks the conclusion of this edited volume, Research in Deaf Education. The purpose of the volume as a whole is to identify strategies for improving the quality of research in deaf education; the conclusion summarizes main themes that both cut across chapters and extend arguments made by individual chapter authors. Overarching themes include discussions around standards for research quality; the positionality of researchers; and how we obtain, interpret, and translate research findings for diverse audiences. In each of these themes we recognize challenges that the field faces as well as opportunities for further dialog and collaboration for addressing these challenges in the future. The chapter concludes with strategies for mentoring the next generation of scholars in deaf education, with an emphasis on incorporating diverse perspectives, making the invisible culture of academia visible to deaf scholars, and ways to increase the accessibility of deaf education research.

Qualitative generalising in accounting research: concepts and strategies

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1100-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee D. Parker ◽  
Deryl Northcott
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Information Systems Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Quality Of Research

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and articulate concepts and approaches to qualitative generalisation that will offer qualitative accounting researchers avenues for enhancing and justifying the general applicability of their research findings and conclusions. Design/methodology/approach – The study and arguments draw from multidisciplinary approaches to this issue. The analysis and theorising is based on published qualitative research literatures from the fields of education, health sciences, sociology, information systems, management and marketing, as well as accounting. Findings – The paper develops two overarching generalisation concepts for application by qualitative accounting researchers. These are built upon a number of qualitative generalisation concepts that have emerged in the multidisciplinary literatures. It also articulates strategies for enhancing the generalisability of qualitative accounting research findings. Research limitations/implications – The paper provides qualitative accounting researchers with understandings, arguments and justifications for the generalisability of their research and the related potential for wider accounting and societal contributions. It also articulates the key factors that impact on the quality of research generalisation that qualitative researchers can offer. Originality/value – This paper presents the most comprehensively sourced and developed approach to the concepts, strategies and unique deliverables of qualitative generalising hitherto available in the accounting research literature.

scholarly journals Prizes Signal Scientific Revolutions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching Jin ◽  
Yifang Ma ◽  
Brian Uzzi
Keyword(s):  
Original Data ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Prize Money ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Star Scientists ◽  
Quality Of Research

Abstract Scientific revolutions affect funding, investments, and technological advances, yet predicting their onset and projected size and impact remains a puzzle. We investigated a possible signal predicting a topic’s revolutionary growth – its association with a scientific prize. Our analysis used original data on nearly all recognized prizes associated with 11,539 scientific topics awarded between 1960 and 2017 to examine the link between prizes and a topic’s unexpected growth in productivity, impact, and talent. Using difference-in-differences regressions and counterfactuals of matched prizewinning and non-prizewinning topics, we found that in the year following the receipt of a prize, a topic experiences an onset of extraordinary growth in impact and talent that continues into the future. At between five to 10 years after the prize year, prizewinning topics are 38% more productive and 31% more impactful in citations, retain 53% more incumbents, and gain 35% more new entrants and 46% more star scientists than their non-prizewinning peer topics. While prizewinning topics grow unexpectedly fast in talent and impact, funding does not drive growth; rather, growth is positively associated with the recency of work on the topic, discipline-specific rather than general awards, and prize money. These findings advance understanding of scientific revolutions and identify variations in prize characteristics that predict the timing and size of a topic’s revolutionary growth. We discuss the implications of these findings on how funding agencies and universities make investments and scientists commit time and resources to one topic versus another, as well as on the quality of research.

scholarly journals The Contextualization of Islamic Education: Reformulation the Essence and Urgency in the Islamic Educators in Information Transformation Era

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Buyung Syukron
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Education ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Information Transformation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Way

Abstract Education is the way to prepare the next generation with excellence and competitiveness and Islamic education is no exception. Islamic education, which aims to form the perfect man (insan kamil), is faced with complicated problems of globalization era characterized by the transformation of information. Islam must dominate the quality of education, to be both resistant and flexible with the times. To form a solid Islamic education takes various steps. Reconstruction of the essence and urgency of Islamic education is a way to drown out the dichotomy of science, since all sciences, according to Islam, comes from one authority. The concept of pluralism education should be done so that Muslims are not conflicted in the belief monopolistic practices. By understanding and accepting diversity, the nature of tolerance and inclusivity have been more mature so that Muslims are able to exchange thoughts for the future progress. The term "reconstruction" in this paper indicates that there has been existing paradigm used in Islamic education. However, this paradigm must now be designed or renewed so that Islamic education is able to build a democratic, religious, innovative, and ready person to face the challenges of the transformation of great and rapid information. Keywords: Islamic Education, Essence and Urgency of Islamic Education, Information Transformation, Islamic Education and Information Transformation Abstrak   Pendidikan adalah cara untuk menyiapkan generasi yang unggul dan memiliki daya saing. Tak terkecuali bagi pendidikan Islam. Pendidikan Islam yang bertujuan untuk menbentuk insan kamil dihadapkan pada permasalahan pelik akan derasnya globalisasi yang ditandai dengan era transformasi informasi. Mutu pendidikan Islam harus mendominasi, agar bersifat resisten dan fleksibel dengan perkembangan zaman. Untuk membentuk pendidikan Islam yang kokoh diperlukan berbagai macam langkah. Rekonstruksi essensi dan urgensitas pendidikan Islam merupakan cara untuk meredam dikotomi ilmu, karena pada hakikatnya semua ilmu menurut Islam bersumber dari satu otoritas. Pendidikan yang berwawasan pluralisme perlu dilakukan agar umat Islam tidak terbentur dalam praktik monopoli keyakinan. Dengan memahami dan menerima keberagaman, maka sifat toleransi dan inklusif semakin matang sehingga umat Islam mampu melakukan tukar pikiran demi kemajuan bersama. Term “rekonstruksi” di dalam paper ini mengindikasikan bahwa sebelumnya telah ada paradigma yang digunakan dalam pendidikan Islam. Hanya saja, paradigma tersebut kini harus dirancang atau diperbaharui kembali agar pendidikan Islam mampu membangun masyarakat yang demokratis, religius, inovatif, dan siap untuk menghadapi tantangan transformasi informasi yang begitu hebat dan pesat.   Kata Kunci: Pendidikan Islam, Essensi dan Urgensitas Pendidikan Islam, Transformasi Informasi, Pendidikan Islam dan Transformasi Informasi

Assessing the Quality of Education Research Through Its Relevance to Practice: An Integrative Review of Research-Practice Partnerships

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-194
Author(s):  
Richard O. Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Quality Of Reporting ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The Impact

The contemporary social, economic, and cultural conditions within and outside the academy prompt important questions about the role of research in education policy and practice. Scholars have framed research-practice partnerships (RPPs) as a strategy to promote evidence-based decision-making in education. In this chapter, I interrogate the notion that RPPs offer an insightful framework to consider how the quality of research can be measured through its use. The findings suggest that using RPPs to assess the quality of education research enhances the relevance to policy and practice as well as attention to the quality of reporting, and pivots from the preeminence of methodological quality. RPPs increase local education leaders’ access to research and bolster the use of research. RPPs may also strengthen the alignment between education research and the public good. Notwithstanding, employing RPPs as a vehicle to assess research quality has its challenges. Valuing the work of RPPs in academia is a work in progress. Building and sustaining an RPP is challenging, and there is still much to learn about the ways in which RPPs work and overcome obstacles. Assessing the impact of RPPs is also difficult. Future considerations are discussed.

scholarly journals Biomedical research in Nigeria: realities and misconceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. FSO475
Author(s):  
Bashiru Garba ◽  
Bashir Sa'idu
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Multinational Organizations ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
And Training

Investment in biomedical research is believed to drive economic growth and increase human capital, leading to increased productivity and sustainability. Unfortunately, such positive impacts are not palpable among the resource-poor countries. This can be attributed to the poor quality of research findings and the reliability of findings, which often are rarely translated to impactful products or decisions. While the Nigerian governments are making considerable efforts to improve the quality of research through increased funding, as well as sponsorship and training of scholars in technologically advanced institutions. This is in order for the transfer of knowledge to improve the livelihood of its citizens. However, there is still need for the private multinational organizations to support this course.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN KEAGAMAAN DAN MASYARAKAT MINORITAS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahid Khozin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Writing Community

AbstractThe research undertaken in one of regencies with Moslem minority is aimed at understanding the condition of religious educational institutions, religious values taught and community expectation with respect to religious education in the future. The research findings show that numerous components of religious educational institutions, including their numbers, were so insufficient. The types of religious educations provided were oriented to the cultivation of religious principles such as faith-morals, daily prayers, and al-Quran reading and writing. Community expected that religious education in the future be increased both in their quantity and the quality of the materials transferred.

What Influences the Quality of Research: Findings from an Editorial Management Database

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leping Liu ◽  
Stuart A. Harrington ◽  
D. LaMont Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Research Findings ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
Management Database

Turtles All the Way Down? — On a Quest for Quality in Qualitative Research

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke Meulenberg-Buskens
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reflective Discourse ◽  
Quality Of Research

This article focuses on the relationship between the personal and the scientific in qualitative research discourse as an aspect of the quest for quality. While there is of necessity a personal dimension in any type of social science research, in qualitative research the personal takes a prominent place in that the researcher's subjectivity is explicitly used within the research context and appropriated by the methodological discourse. The purpose of methodological discourse is to safeguard the quality of research: Guidelines are developed, innovations are discussed, and traditions and conventions maintained. Methodological discourse can also be the arena where a community of scientists asserts itself through discussing its members' practices. It is here where personal authority and scientific convention meet in the battle for research quality. The case study used here reflects a particular event in a qualitative methodological discourse which was a crisis of sorts. An attempt is made to analyse the process which revealed the prevalent rules and the question is raised whether the quest for recognizability, which is the basis of methodological discourse operating within a community of scientists, has the potential to function as a threat to the quest for quality, so undermining its very purpose. A plea is made for a multi-layered reflective discourse where not only individual work will be scrutinized, but the discourse will scrutinize itself with the help of individual events.

scholarly journals Open Science Saves Lives: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonni Besançon ◽  
Nathan Peiffer-Smadja ◽  
Corentin Segalas ◽  
Haiting Jiang ◽  
Paola Masuzzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scientific Process ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Quality Of Research

AbstractIn the last decade Open Science principles have been successfully advocated for and are being slowly adopted in different research communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many publishers and researchers have sped up their adoption of Open Science practices, sometimes embracing them fully and sometimes partially or in a sub-optimal manner. In this article, we express concerns about the violation of some of the Open Science principles and its potential impact on the quality of research output. We provide evidence of the misuses of these principles at different stages of the scientific process. We call for a wider adoption of Open Science practices in the hope that this work will encourage a broader endorsement of Open Science principles and serve as a reminder that science should always be a rigorous process, reliable and transparent, especially in the context of a pandemic where research findings are being translated into practice even more rapidly. We provide all data and scripts at https://osf.io/renxy/.

scholarly journals Prioritizing the Factors Affecting Evidence-based Medicine in Physicians Affiliated to Iranian Health Insurance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farnaz Mohamadhoseinzadeh Hashemi ◽  
Mehrnoosh Jafari ◽  
Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Highest Weight ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Quality Of Research

Introduction: The utilization of the medical research results is one of the most important indicators in the development of this profession, which provides effective care to patients and improves the quality of care. However, performing based on the evidence-based results has been unsuccessful in some cases. This study aimed to investigated and prioritize the factors affecting evidence-based medicine among physicians affiliated to Iranian Health insurance. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 150 physicians affiliated to Iranian Health insurance in Tehran city in 2018. The simple random sampling method was used to collect the data. The data collection tool was a questionnaire containing of three parts: demographic questionnaire, Fonk (1995) evidence-based medical barriers questionnaire that included four domains and 25 questions, as well as a researcher-made questionnaire that prioritized the factors influencing evidence-based medicine implementation. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 21 and Expert Choice software using hierarchical analysis method. Results: Most physicians were male (53.3%) and worked as an official employee. Among four dimensions, the highest mean and standard deviation was related to organizational impact, while the lowest was related to the quality of research and possible outcomes. Regarding the factors of organizational impacts, the highest weight or priority was attributed to the feeling of insufficient independence to change care methods with a weight of 0.259. Among the factors related to the research quality, the highest weight and priority was related to the factor of methodological defects in the research with a weight of 0.192. Considering the factors related to the skills of conducting research, the highest priority and weight was attributed to the lack of documentary evidence for the performance change with a weight of 0.320. Moreover, regarding the factors related to communication and access to the findings of the research, the highest weight and priority was in the factor of unavailability of actual articles (0.475). Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that physicians considered problems and barriers related to organization, individual, and quality of research studies. Therefore, facilities should be created for using research findings as well as the conditions for updating physicians' knowledge, skills, and attitudes to use the research results.  

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