1. RESEACH MEDIATION IN EDUCATION
Amanda Cooper
RESEACH MEDIATION IN EDUCATION
CSSE April 8, 2011
AMANDA COOPER
Research Supporting Practice in Education:

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

3. Amanda Cooper amanda.cooper@utoronto.ca
RESEARCH MEDIATION
RESEARCH PRODUCTION
KM INTERMEDIARIES
RESEARCH USE KM
SOCIAL CONTEXT
TIME
Research Supporting Practice in Education:

4. RESEARCH MEDIATION SOCIAL CONTEXT KM INTERMEDIARIES
TIME
SOCIAL CONTEXT
RESEARCH USE
RESEARCH PRODUCTION
KM INTERMEDIARIES
TYPE OF ORGANIZATION
Gov’t
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

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

8. Types of Canadian KMIs

9. 44 KMIs ACROSS CANADA

10. Amanda Cooper amanda.cooper@utoronto.ca
1960
1990
1980
1970
2000
Amanda Cooper
The Rise of Canadian
KM Intermediaries
Pre- 1960s 2
CEA
CD Howe 4
1960 4
LDAC
LDAO
CMEC
1970
AERO
HANEN
FRASER
CMEC
1980 6 10
CCPA
LCBN
CCBR
LDANS
CRRU
SK Lit
1990
LitBC
P4E
CODE
SAEE
TLP
EQAO
AIMS
Galileo
CPRN
MCLE
2000 18
LEARN
CCKM
CEED
CSC
HELP
CCL
ORION
RSPE
MERN
SQE
PREVNet
Harris
SKE-EDU
E-Best
ERESB
EYEON
Research Impact
Research Supporting Practice in Education:

11. Organizational Features

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

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

14. KM PROCESSES

16. Use of Online Strategies
RSS feed, blog, online forum, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, YouTube

17. Social Media

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:
“StatsCan: Canadian drop out rate declining. Drop out highest in AB, MB, QC, lowest in NL, BC, ON

19. IMPACT

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