THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH STRATEGIES ON PLANNING IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Titel:
THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH STRATEGIES ON PLANNING IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Auteur:
Shearon, Ronald W. Brownlee, Irene A.
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 15 (1991) nr. 2 pagina's 147-157
Jaar:
1991-04
Inhoud:
Researchers sometimes find it difficult to gain support, cooperation, and involvement from administrators at both the state-system and local college level when conducting comprehensive system-wide research studies. This paper contrasts three research strategies used over the past 25 years involving cooperation between Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges. The three research strategies were developmental in nature and evolved into increasingly more collaborative linkages between the universities and community colleges. The three research strategies are (a) Traditional Researcher Dominated Strategy, (b) Researcher Dominated with Limited Client Involvement, and (c) Researcher-Client Collaborative Strategy. These research strategies represent five large-scale research studies of community college students funded by the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges and conducted by university and community college researchers. The action research process was used to demonstrate how a comprehensive system-wide research project may be useful for achieving essential involvement and collaboration among individual community colleges, the statewide community college system, and universities. The results suggest that involvement and collaboration are essential among researchers, administrators, and system leaders if the findings are to be used in making needed changes in policies, practices, and procedures.
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