The primary goal of CSLP research is to develop the strategies and tools to advance knowledge and practices that will have an immediate and direct effect on how schools operate. We work very closely with our partners in the public sector so that our research can be informed by those practicing in the field.

CSLP Advisory Board members

Systematic Reviews of Research: One way that the CSLP has tried to communicate to other scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers is by conducting systematic reviews of important educational literatures. We have just completed a major review of the literature on distance education that will be published in the Review of Educational Research. The paper has won the 2004 Award for Excellence in Research from the Canadian Association of Distance Education. We are currently in the midst of another review on the impact of instruction on students’ critical thinking. And we plan to undertake other reviews, for example, on postsecondary education and technology integration.

Bob Bernard is the co-chairs of the International Campbell Collaboration Education Group that is dedicated to improving the quality of systematic reviews and their dissemination to, and use by, policy-makers and practitioners. Anne Wade is a member of the Campbell Collaboration’s Information Retrieval Group and acts as the liaison between the Education and the Information Retrieval groups. She is also an Associate of the Evidence Network in the UK.

Recent Events
October 04, 2004 - Universities/School Boards/MEQ-SCA Focus Day