KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION
INTERMEDIARIES:
A CROSS-CASE ANALYSIS OF
44 CANADIAN EDUCATION
ORGANIZATIONS
AMANDA COOPER
GIC August 2011
[email protected]
Research Questions

What is the nature and impact of the work of
Canadian intermediaries in knowledge
mobilization in education?
1.
2.
3.
4.
What types of intermediaries exist in education in Canada?
What are the organizational features of these
organizations?
What knowledge mobilization processes are
intermediaries involved in?
How do intermediaries measure and evaluate the impact of
their knowledge mobilization work?
RESEARCH MEDIATION
KM INTERMEDIARIES
1. TYPE OF ORGANIZATION
Gov’t
Non-Profit For Profit Membership
2. ORGANIZATIONAL FEATURES
RESEARCH
PRODUCTION
Mission Scope
Target Audience
Size Resources Membership Composition
3. KM PROCESSES
Message Strategies Dissemination Mechanism
4. IMPACT
Measurement & Evaluation
SOCIAL CONTEXT
TIME
RESEARCH
USE
KM INTERMEDIARIES
Governmental
Ministry
Research
Branches
District
Research
Services
Standard &
Evaluation
Funding
Agencies
Statistical
Agencies
Not for Profit
University
Research
Centres
Advocacy
Issue Based
Think Tanks
For Profit
Textbook
publishers,
Instructional
program
vendors
Research
Consulting
Companies
Membership
Professional
Network
Technological
Platform
Providers
A Metric To Measure KM Efforts
STRATEGIES Products
INDICATORS
Different types
3
Ease of use
Accessibility
Audience Focus
2
3
4
Extra Indicators
STRATEGY TOTAL
/12
Events
6
4
6
2
Networks
6
2 2
4
4
4
/20 /20
Extra
Strategies
INDICATOR
TOTAL
5
4
3
/20
/14
/16
/10
/12
/72
8
/20
• Interrater Reliability Testing of Tool: Intraclass Correlation= .799
• 3 raters per organization for 9 orgs (20% of KMIs Sample)
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
KM Intermediaries
(N=44)
Faculties of Education
(N=21)
School Districts
(N=14)
INDICATORS
STRATEGIES
Metric Categories
TOTAL
Other Strategies
Networks
Events
Products
Other Indicators
Audience Focus
Accessibility
Ease of Use
Ministries of Education
(N=26)
Types
Mean Score (%)
KM Efforts by Organization
Score on KM Metric (%)
Histogram: Total Scores by Type of
Organization
90 to 100
80 to 90
70 to 80
Knowledge Mobilization
Intermediaries (N=44)
Faculties of Education
(N=21)
School Districts (N=14)
60 to 70
50 to 60
40 to 50
30 to 40
20 to 30
Ministries (N= 26)
10 to 20
0 to 10
0
5
10
15
20
25
Frequency (Number of Organizations)
44 KMIs ACROSS CANADA
The Rise of Canadian
Knowledge Brokers
4
1960
2
4
•LDAC •LDAO
•LDAS •CMEC
6
1980
•CCPA
•CCBR
•CRRU
•LCBN
•LDANS
•SK Lit
1970
•AERO
•HANEN
•FRASER •CMEC
10
2000
•LEARN
•CEED
•HELP
•ORION
•MERN
•SQE
•Harris
•E-Best
Pre- 1960s
•CEA
•CD Howe
•CCKM
•CSC
•CCL
•RSPE
•E-Best
•PREVNet
•SKE-EDU •EYEON
•ERESB
•Research Impact
18
1990
•LitBC
•CODE
•TLP
•AIMS
•CPRN
•P4E
•SAEE
•EQAO
•Galileo
•MCLE
(Cooper , 2011)
References
Cooper, A. (2011). Knowledge Mobilization Intermediaries in Education Across
Canada. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Other Publications on Knowledge Mobilization
Cooper, A. & Levin, B. (2010). Some Canadian contributions to understanding
knowledge mobilization. Evidence and Policy, 6(3), 351-369.
Cooper, A., Levin, B., & Campbell, C. (2009). The growing (but still limited)
importance of evidence in education policy and practice. Journal of
Educational Change, 10(2-3), 159-171.