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The Impact of Educational Research

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1. The impact of Educational Research - An Overview
	Overview
2. Mapping educational research and its impact on Australian schools
	2.1	The project brief: interpretation and methodology
	2.2	A framework for analysing research impact
	2.3	Using the Australian education index to map educational research in Australia from 1984 to 1997
	2.4	A snapshot of research in university education faculties  in 1997
	2.5	Postgraduate student perspectives on research
	2.6	Professional association perspectives on research
	2.7	School principal perspectives on research
	2.8	Common themes across the surveys
	2.9	Policy maker perspectives on research
	2.10	Conclusion
	Technical notes
	Survey materials
3. Backtracking practice and policies to research
	3.1	Introduction
	3.2	Refocusing the gender issue: the education of boys  (Anne Butorac)
	3.3	The new learning technologies
	3.4	Students at educational risk (Ann Zubrick)
	3.5	Early years literacy policy and practice (Anna Alderson)
	3.6	A user-centric model: discussion and conclusions
4. Teacher knowledge in action
	4.1	The relationship of teacher knowledge in action and educational research
	4.2	Research design and methodology
	4.3	Teacher knowledge in action: the stimulated recall outcomes
	4.4	Teacher knowledge in action: mapping of teachers' conceptual understanding of effective teaching
	4.5	Findings and implications
5. The relationships between research and decision-making in education: an empirical investigation
	5.1	Introduction
	5.2	Decision making
	5.3	Research
	5.4	Linkages
	5.5	Three concluding comments
6. A bibliometric analysis
	6.1	Executive summary
	6.2	Introduction
	6.3	Data and methodology
	6.4	The international contribution of Australian educational research
	6.5	A composite index of international research performance
	6.6	The position of education among the fields of research
	6.7	Institutional contributions to Australian education research
	6.8	Patterns of research collaboration
	6.9	The return to resource inputs
	6.10	The contribution of individual publications
	6.11	The concentration of authorships
	6.12	Conclusion

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