Two technical working group summaries are now available: “Practitioner Perspectives on Emerging Research Needs” and “Improving Relevance in Education and Research and Researcher Perspectives on Strengthening IES’s Research Grant and Training Programs.”
In 2014, the National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) held two Technical Working Group (TWG) meetings to discuss critical research needs and ways to strengthen IES research and training programs. In part, the meetings were a response to a 2013 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office that recommended IES seek more input from stakeholders to make its research more relevant and useful. The first TWG meeting was held in March 2014 with education practitioners; the second was held in October 2014 with education researchers.
Summaries of the meetings are now available on the TWG summary pages of the NCER website and the NCSER website.