Survey experiments - analyzing the conditions for successful knowledge transfer

The topic of language education in the immigrant society is of great social importance. It is therefore a central task of the funded projects to transfer knowledge about the conditions for successful language education to educational practice, administration and/or educational policy. This is usually achieved at the level of the funded projects through cooperation with practitioners. The method of randomized survey experiments allows to examine how empirically proven concepts can be successfully transferred to a broad implementation.  This method systematically varies the content and forms of communicating (such as presentation through text vs. video) research results in order to record practitioner’s evaluation of evidence, relevance and usefulness of research results. The communication platforms of the German Institute for Adult Education offer a good infrastructure for such survey experiments, which have already been successfully used in recent years (e. g. Mohajerzad et al., 2021). 

The transfer studies will be carried out at the German Institute for Adult Education in Bonn and are expected to start in the first half of 2025.  

Duration:

since 2025

References: 

Mohajerzad, H., Martin, A., Christ, J. & Widany, S. (2021). Bridging the gap between science and practice: Research collaboration and the perception of research findings. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 90451. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.790451