CLOSING THE GAP: PROGRESSING FROM INJURY PREVENTION RESEARCH TO SAFETY PROMOTION PRACTICE

Closing the Gap from Policy to Practice

One of the frustrations of life for those who seek change, is the slow pace of reform. Policy reform in arts and culture is no exception. Governments offer promises, but they seem to take forever to arrive, and are often watered down when they do. Why is this so? We have no shortage of policies, Acts, discussion papers and other worthy documents telling us how things could change, but there is ...

Why Closing the Research–Practice Gap Is Critical to Closing Student Achievement Gaps

Discussions of the research–practice gap often assume that K–12 educators are uninterested in or even derisive about the value of research for improving student learning. The work of K–12 educators in the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) counters this conventional wisdom. This article provides evidence that MSAN educators not only value research, they see that closing the research–pr...

Closing the Research/Practice Gap: The Journey from Student to Practitioner

Closing the gap between NLP research and clinical practice.

This is an exciting time in clinical natural language processing (NLP). Many of the ideas discussed in the NLP community over the last decade have finally come to fruition: we have had shared tasks in the clinical arena [1, 2]; several NLP pipelines have been released as open source resources [3, 4]; the community is working together to develop standards that will increase interoperability of N...

Closing the Gap between Research Evidence and Clinical Practice: Jordanian Nurses’ Perceived Barriers to Research Utilisation

Background: The nursing profession is a combination of theory and practical skill, and nurses are required to generate and develop knowledge through implementing research into clinical practice. Considerable number of barriers could hind implementing research findings into practice. Barriers to research utilisation are not identified in the Jordanian context. Aims and Objectives: To explore Jor...