RESEACH MEDIATION IN EDUCATION AMANDA COOPER CSSE April

RESEACH MEDIATION IN EDUCATION AMANDA COOPER CSSE April 8, 2011

Research Question What is the nature and impact of the work of Canadian intermediaries in knowledge mobilization in education?

RESEARCH MEDIATION KM INTERMEDIARIES RESEARCH USE RESEARCH PRODUCTION KM SOCIAL CONTEXT TIME

RESEARCH MEDIATION KM INTERMEDIARIES 1. TYPE OF ORGANIZATION Gov’t RESEARCH PRODUCTION Non-Profit For Profit Membership 2. ORGANIZATIONAL FEATURES Mission Scope Target Audience Size Resources Membership Composition 3. KM PROCESSES Message Strategies Dissemination Mechanism 4. IMPACT Measurement & Evaluation SOCIAL CONTEXT TIME RESEARCH USE

A Metric To Measure KM Efforts STRATEGIES Products INDICATORS Different types 3 Ease of use Accessibility Audience Focus 2 3 4 Extra Indicators STRATEGY TOTAL /12 Events 6 4 6 2 Networks 6 2 2 4 4 4 /20 Extra Strategies INDICATOR TOTAL 5 4 3 /20 /14 /16 /10 /12 /72 8 /20 • Interrater Reliability Testing of Tool: Intraclass Correlation=. 799 • 3 raters per organization for 9 orgs (20% of KMIs Sample)

Types of Canadian KMIs

44 KMIs ACROSS CANADA

The Rise of Canadian KM Intermediaries 4 1960 • LDAC • LDAO • CMEC 2 4 6 1980 • CCPA • CCBR • CRRU 2000 • LEARN • CEED • HELP • ORION • MERN • SQE • Harris • E-Best • LCBN • LDANS • SK Lit Pre- 1960 s • CEA • CD Howe 1970 • AERO • HANEN • FRASER • CMEC 10 • CCKM 18 • CSC • CCL • RSPE • E-Best • PREVNet • SKE-EDU • EYEON • ERESB • Research Impact 1990 • Lit. BC • CODE • TLP • AIMS • CPRN • P 4 E • SAEE • EQAO • Galileo • MCLE

Organizational Features

Size & Resources Most KMIs are small (63%) KMI Size (FTE) n Min Max Mean Mode Small (1 -10 FTE) 26 1 10 5 3 Medium (11 -19 FTE) 4 11 14 12 11 Large (20+ FTE) 13 20 77 41 30 Future Analysis of Roles, % of Dedicated KM staff, in relation to KM efforts in various areas

Revenue & Expenditures Many of the KMIs are Revenue Generating KMI Size n Min ($) Max ($) Mean ($) Small 7 400, 000 1, 526, 204 984, 811 Large 9 3, 145, 389 12, 814, 746 7, 980, 067 Operating Expenses KMI Size n Min ($) Max ($) Mean ($) Small 7 150, 000 2, 044, 892 867, 063 Large 9 2, 137, 898 20, 583, 490 7, 569, 696

KM PROCESSES

Use of Online Strategies RSS feed, blog, online forum, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, You. Tube

Social Media Flick. R 3% Share button Delicious 12% 3% Linked In 1% You. Tube 10% Facebook 19% RSS Feed 14% Blog 10% Online Forum 10% Twitter 18%

Social Media: Frequency & Nature Opinion: “Are parents really partners in education? Should they be? ” Promotion: “Last chance to register for our conference” Information: “Premier’s arts awards tonight” Update: “Just watched waiting for Superman”. Research Based: “Stats. Can: Canadian drop out rate declining. Drop out highest in AB, MB, QC, lowest in NL, BC, ON http: //ning. it/a 2 au. TU”

IMPACT

Measuring Impact? Most KMIs don’t report any impact measures

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