A two-year professional learning community helped eight REL Midwest researchers identify collaborative-research challenges and apply solutions in their alliance work¶

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q1 i? Eight REL Midwest researchers met regularly for two years in a professional learning community to identify collaborative-research challenges and apply solutions to their alliance work. → No author line printed 2017

Evidence¶

No author line printed 2017¶

No author line printed. (2017). Working paper on lessons learned by REL Midwest researchers about collaborative research challenges, strategies, and tools. UChicago Consortium. https://consortium.uchicago.edu

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Reflection-paper overview of REL Midwest's professional learning community, described in the article's own words: the eight participating researchers "met regularly for two years to identify the challenges they faced in conducting collaborative research." No outcome measures or effect sizes are reported.

"Through REL Midwest’s professional learning community, the eight participating researchers met regularly for two years to identify the challenges they faced in conducting collaborative research, seek resources and solutions, and then apply those solutions to their work with the research alliances."

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