Evaluation Of Knowledge Transfer Research Articles

Gender biases in the evaluation of knowledge transfer: A meta-evaluative analysis of the Spanish “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Sexennium”

This paper analyses from a gender perspective a pilot call for evaluating academics and researcher transfer and innovation activities, launched by the Spanish Government in 2018, known as the “Knowledge Transfer & Innovation Sexennium” (KT&IS). Not only women’s participation was much lower than that of men (1 woman applicant for every 3 men applicants), but also, they showed lower success rates than men in all scientific fields, with an average gap of more than 13 points. The methodology combined an exploratory quantitative analysis of the almost 17,000 applications, with a meta-evaluative qualitative analysis through interviews to key actors of the evaluation program and focus groups with evaluators. Hidden biases operating throughout and in each of the different phases of the KT&IS evaluation process were identified. This article aims at contributing to how economic and social impact of research can be fairly and fully evaluated, as well as at facilitating the design of future evaluation calls that promote the effective advancement of gender equality in all science-related activities and transfer to society.

A Systematic Literature Review on Extended Reality: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality in Working Life

Extended reality (XR), here jointly referring to virtual, augmented, and mixed (VR, AR, MR) reality, is becoming more common in everyday working life. This paper presents a systematic literature review of academic publications on XR indicating changes in practical organization of work. We analyse both application areas of XR and theoretical and methodological approaches of XR research. The review process followed the PRISMA statement. Design, remote collaboration, and training were the main application areas of XR. XR enabled overcoming of obstacles set by time and space, safety, and resources by mediating experience of space. Research on XR applications in actual working life settings is yet relatively rare and covers primarily three areas: collaboration, evaluation of knowledge transfer, and work practices. Virtual reality was the most common form of applied XR, although the hardware used varied case by case. We identified four research areas regarding XR: collaboration, work practices, and evaluation of knowledge transfer, which somewhat followed the application areas. We did not find XR-specific methodologies in the reviewed articles, only few recent studies used novel ways of collecting research material, such as recording the movement in virtual reality. For now, XR still holds significant potential rather than clearly confirmed general advantages in working life.

Art-based rehabilitation program training: a transfer of knowledge

To evaluate the implementation, processes and perceived efficacy of a pilot project of knowledge transfer in public health, which involves the training/supervision of new practitioners in an art-based rehabilitation program. This innovative evidence-based intervention seeks to promote the well-being of youth with mental disorders through circus and theater workshops. The purpose of this study is to provide a formative evaluation of this pilot project in order to improve the intervention and the knowledge transfer practices in public health. This research is based on a participatory and mixed approach, with a ?triangulation-convergence? design, integrating a thematic analysis of qualitative data (semi-structured interviews and Focus Groups), a descriptive analysis of quantitative data (questionnaire of reaction) and a documentary compliance analysis (grid of activity monitoring). The results show that the knowledge transfer strategy has resulted in the training of practitioners who feel ready to take charge of the project, despite implementation gaps. The main barrier was the prolonged and unforeseen absence of project leaders, for reasons out of their control. Nevertheless, the motivation and commitment of the team members acted as a catalyst in this pilot project, which became a setting for discussion and experimentation of the knowledge transfer strategy. This study demonstrates the benefits of adopting a participatory approach and mixed method in the evaluation of knowledge transfer in public health, which would better capture the inherent complexity of social interventions.

EP23.03: Evaluation of knowledge transfer through telemedicine: evaluation of ISUOG live webcast of basic obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound training in Rwanda

EP23.03: Evaluation of knowledge transfer through telemedicine: evaluation of ISUOG live webcast of basic obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound training in Rwanda

Evaluation of knowledge transfer; conceptual and practical problems of impact assessment of Farming Connect in Wales

A generic issue when attempting to justify the use of public funds for Knowledge Transfer (KT) and the provision of advice is the demonstration of their impact on policy goals. Both conceptual and practical difficulties are encountered. Experience gained in evaluating Farming Connect in Wales, the programme delivering KT and advice to Welsh farmers using a wide range of activities, is drawn on to illustrate issues faced in detecting economic impacts at farm and sector levels, in particular in establishing the counterfactual. Two methodological tools are compared; the common but 'naïve' approach of asking farmers about impacts on their business, and the 'quasi-experimental' one of comparing samples of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. Rather different results are obtained (farmer responses suggesting a far greater level of impact) and reasons for these are sought. Lessons have been learned, in particular raising questions on the reliability of the ‘naïve’ approach, that need to be taken into account in the future design of monitoring and evaluation not just in agriculture but more generally, and that carry implications for the selection of the types of activities that receive public support.

Training veterinarians and agricultural advisers on a novel tool for tail biting prevention

IntroductionMany health and welfare problems in modern livestock production are multifactorial problems which require innovative solutions, such as novel risk assessment and management tools. However, the best way to distribute...

Applied Research and Knowledge Transfer: Retaining Design Knowledge Assets in Higher Education

ABSTRACTRecent research into the transfer and retention of design knowledge assets from knowledge transfer (KT) projects in a number of universities in the West Midlands is described. Participants in design-based knowledge transfer projects were interviewed and their projects reviewed within several universities. A typology of design knowledge assets of the projects researched indicated that universities appear not to systematically reflect and assess value in a manner commensurate with learning organizations. An interdependent relationship between the identification of design knowledge assets and the evaluation of knowledge transfer was discovered. The tacit and embedded nature of unrealized design knowledge was found to be difficult to harvest but present in most projects. The limited client-based value assessment criteria offered little to universities. New approaches to identifying, capturing and reusing knowledge assets from design-oriented knowledge transfer projects are indicated.

Why and how to objectively evaluate medical gestures?

Junior physicians mainly learn during their observation in the operative room. The senior physicians evaluate them based on the same kind of observation. Knowledge transfer evaluation is thus done without quantitative methods and it mainly lies on a subjective assessment. In this paper, we present some recent techniques used to objectively evaluate medical gestures. The classical techniques used are Hidden Markov Models (HMM) or Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). Both techniques lies on the temporal analysis of the gestures. We proposed here a technique based on the arc length parametrization in order to analyze the gestures in space which is more appropriate because it gives information about the shape of the gestures independently of the chosen coordinate system.

Case Studies of Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation in Indonesian Small and Medium Enterprises: The Knowledge Transfer Evaluation

Case Studies of Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation in Indonesian Small and Medium Enterprises: The Knowledge Transfer Evaluation

An Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer from Microworld Programming to Conventional Programming

Programming microworlds are being used for introducing students to programming for many years. Although many professors and school teachers report positive results from using programming microwords, these results are usually based on anecdotal evidence rather than rigorous empirical evaluation. A question that has not been answered yet with certainty is whether the knowledge acquired in the context of a programming microworld is transferred to a conventional programming language. In an attempt to investigate this issue we used a specially designed middle-term exam and a questionnaire at the end of an undergraduate Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) course. The course uses the programming microworld objectKarel for a short introduction to the most fundamental OOP concepts, and then the environment BlueJ and Java for presenting the real thing. The analysis of students' replies in the questionnaire shows that the introduction to OOP with the microworld helps the vast majority of students to comprehend fundamental concepts of OOP and what is more important is that this knowledge is transferred to Java afterwards. These results are supported by the comparative analysis of students' performance in written exams that took place in the context of two distinct offerings of the course, prior and after the use of the microworld in it.

Test and Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer between Task Domains

To examine the transfer of knowledge representation between task domains, working engineers and pharmacists were asked to provide pairwise dissimilarity ratings of concepts in a test domain. The test domain was independent of engineering and pharmacy and was relatively new to both subject groups. A quantitative technique based on the multidimensional scaling and directional statistics was used to test and evaluate group differences in knowledge representation. The results indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between two groups in knowledge representation of the test domain. That is, knowledge representation was domain-specific and was not transferable between task domains.