Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time
Location: Virtual
Description: The webinar highlights strategies for promoting productive research partnerships between practitioners and researchers working in rural settings. The webinar presenters will discuss four factors, from Studying Educational Effectiveness in Rural Settings: A Guide for Researchers, to consider when conducting research in rural settings (study design, recruitment, implementation support and monitoring, and data collection).
Partnership or Research Alliance: REL Central Leadership Area: Rural Education Cross-REL Rural Education Working Group
Audience: This webinar is designed for a non-REL audience, including practitioners at school, district, state, and regional levels in rural areas who routinely collaborate with researchers to design and implement educational research activities.
Speakers: Susan Sheridan, Professor and Director of the National Center for Research on Rural Education, University of Nebraska James Bovaird, Associate Professor and Director of the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics, and Psychometrics, University of Nebraska
Report Citation: Sheridan, S., Dynarski, M., & Bovaird, J. (2017). Studying educational effectiveness in rural settings: A guide for researchers. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. link link
