Engagement, Research, and Evidence

English Teachers’ Research Engagement: Current Barriers and Future Strategies

Reflections on the relationship between Iranian ELT researchers and practitioners suggest that research-practice gap has been an endemic feature of our language education programs. This issue has recently become a prime concern for many educational researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders. As such, calls for empirical investigations of measures to be taken in order to improve the relat...

English Teachers’ Research Engagement: Current Barriers and Future Strategies

Reflections on the relationship between Iranian ELT researchers and practitioners suggest that research-practice gap has been an endemic feature of our language education programs. This issue has recently become a prime concern for many educational researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders. As such, calls for empirical investigations of measures to be taken in order to improve the relat...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

english teachers’ research engagement: current barriers and future strategies

Knowledge acquisition and research evidence in autism: Researcher and practitioner perspectives and engagement.

BACKGROUND Government policy and national practice guidelines have created an increasing need for autism services to adopt an evidence-based practice approach. However, a gap continues to exist between research evidence and its application. This study investigated the difference between autism researchers and practitioners in their methods of acquiring knowledge. METHODS In a questionnaire st...