The R4S team has decades of combined experience studying the use of data and research evidence by schools and school leaders. Explore their featured work below and in our publication archive. Looking for something shorter? Try our Resource Center.

  • Survey of Evidence in Education for Schools (SEE-S) Descriptive Report Executive Summary

    Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Sam Van Horne, Kati Tilley, Samantha Shewchuk, Henry May, Deborah Amsden Micklos, Horatio Blackman

    The Center for Research Use in Education presents the Executive Summary of the results of analysis of data collected from over 150 schools nation-wide who …

  • Survey of Evidence in Education for Schools (SEE-S) Descriptive Report

    Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Sam Van Horne, Kati Tilley, Samantha Shewchuk, Henry May, Deborah Amsden Micklos, Horatio Blackman

    The Center for Research Use in Education presents the results of analysis of data collected from over 150 schools nation-wide who participated in the Survey …

  • Survey of Evidence in Education for Schools (SEE-S) Technical Report

    Henry May, Horatio Blackman, Sam Van Horne, Kati Tille, Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Samantha Shewchuk, Darren Agboh, & Deborah Amsden Micklos

    The Center for Research Use in Education presents the Survey of Evidence in Education for Schools (SEE-S) Technical Report documenting the major technical aspects of the …

  • Leveraging Professional Activities to Increase Teachers’ Research Use in their Practices

    Darren Agboh

    Leveraging Professional Activities to Increase Teachers’ Research Use in their Practices Report on the prevalence of various professional development activities of elementary, middle, and high …

  • How is evidence use enacted in schools? A mixed methods multiple case study of “deep-use” schools

    Elizabeth Farley-Ripple

    How is evidence use enacted in schools? Dr. Elizabeth Farley-Ripple and colleagues at the Center for Research Use in Education have addressed two questions as …

  • Conceptualizing Research Use: Problems & Decisions in Schools

    Kati Tilley and Scott Sheridan

    Conceptualizing Research Use: Problems & Decisions in Schools Tilley & Sheridan report on the decisions made in recent school improvement efforts and the problems or …

  • Research Brokerage: How Research Enters and Moves through Schools

    Elizabeth Farley-Ripple

    Research Brokerage: How Research Enters and Moves through Schools Dr. Elizabeth Farley-Ripple reports on the resources educators use, who the brokers of research information are, …

  • Understanding Brokerage in Education: Backward Tracking from Practice to Research

    Samantha Shewchuk and Elizabeth Farley-Ripple

    Understanding Brokerage in Education: Backward Tracking from Practice to Research By backward tracking four case studies, authors are able to describe the actors, activities, and …

  • Problems & Decisions in School A

    Kati Tilley

    Problems & Decisions in School A In this school-level analysis of organizational decisions and the problems that motivated them, learn what the R4S team found …

  • Types of Problems and Decisions Occurring in Schools

    Kati Tilley

    Types of Problems and Decisions Occurring in Schools This Data Point provides insight into the types of problems school-based educators commonly face, and the types …