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The Committee believes that vocational education R&D shares with educational R&D a lack of both demonstrated impact on students and methods for rigorously measuring impact. There are several major reasons for the limited impact of vocational education R&D: · Priorities for R&D have been based more on political and bureaucratic considerations than on the results of previous research.
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· There has been no systematic effort to maximize the impact of the vocational education R&D program, and the few attempts to measure impact have met with only limited success. The Committee believes that any program of applied R&D should emphasize maximizing and measur~ng Impact.
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In addition to this supportive and passive role, however, the Committee believes vocational education R&D can and should contribute to the clarification of the purposes of vocational education and help the program adapt as society changes. Defining objectives, measuring the actual benefits of existing programs, and initiating exploration of new subjects in vocational education, rather than simply reacting to problems of existing programs, are important activities for the R&D program.
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to facilitate communication and coordination among parts of the R&D program and to define the roles and interr~lnti~nchinc Omens ;~; tutions involved in the program; (2) to ensure that long-term problems, especially those of national and multistate scope, are studied; (3)
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The current geographic limitation on awards of the Commissioner's share should be removed. Procedures for Setting Priorities The Commissioner of Education and state directors of vocational education should initiate a rigorous system of setting priorities, using continuing advisory groups and management information systems to determine long-range plans for R&D.
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User training programs should be conducted to improve the flow of information from the resource system to practitioners.
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