ArticleSocial networks2019
What Types of Brokerage Bridge the Research-Practice Gap? The Case of Public School Educators.
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- From Choose and Hope to Evidence and Impact: Rethinking School-Based Behavioral Health Decisions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Bridging gaps: a systematic literature review of brokerage in educational change.Journal of educational change · 2024Article
- Simulating the role of knowledge brokers in policy making in state agencies: An agent-based model.Health services research · 2022Article
- That'll Move the Chains: Collecting Network Chain Data.Social networks · 2022Article
- "Title does not dictate behavior": Associations of formal, structural, and behavioral brokerage with school staff members' professional well-being.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- School staff wellbeing: A network-based assessment of burnout.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Research to Translation: The Healthy Schools Toolkit and New Approaches to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model.The Journal of school health · 2020Article
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Abstract
The presence of a research-practice gap is recognized across multiple fields including education, psychology, and public health. In this paper, we examine which of five structural types of brokerage are most and least effective in bridging this research-practice gap in the context of education. Using a small world survey design, we tracked how a statewide random sample of 247 K-12 principals and superintendents in Michigan seek information about social skills programs from brokering individuals and organizations. We find that some triadic brokerage structures are more effective than others in closing the communication gap between practitioners and researchers. Specifically, educators relying on itinerant brokerage, which circulates information between members of the same community, were five times less likely to obtain information from a researcher. In contrast, educators relying on representative or liaison brokerage, which facilitate information transfer between members of different communities, were more than twice as likely to obtain information from a researcher. We conclude by discussing implications for the development of interventions designed to facilitate information sharing between practitioners and researchers.
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