Specifically, with this ARC site you can learn how to:
- Conceptualize how data management, research and evaluation support your own work
- Access reliable databases
- Develop a knowledge mobilization strategy for your work
- Assess the quality of claims being made in research reports
- Create a logic model
- Conceptualize how data, research, and evaluation support the policy and programming activities in your school or school board
Most importantly, this site is a repository of information and links to expert sources that will live and grow as we all use it.
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If you would like to learn at your own pace, feel free to explore the topics on the navigation bar at your convenience.
Getting Started
- What data do we have on “x” topic in our school, or school board?
- I want to share this evidence with others.
- How do I do a survey?
- I need to gather everything out there about “x”
- Has someone already done work on this topic?
- I don’t know whether to do a rapid scan, annotated bibliography, or literature review: how do I decide?
- Is this research report reliable?
- How do I hire someone to do a research study on “x” topic for us?
- I need to do a literature review
- How can I find out whether our program is working?
- I need to know how to do a focus group.
- What does this term mean?
