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Canadian Inventory of Funded Educational Research Projects

Canadian Inventory of Funded Educational Research Projects

The Research Center on Academic Success (CRIRES) at Université Laval has drawn up an inventory of 1462 grants awarded to educational research projects by two federal and provincial government funding agencies over the last two decades. These grants have been grouped into a consistent documentary package within the inventory.

Based on a typology of research topics developed by the CRIRES, the inventory highlights the expertise of educational researchers across Canada and the Province of Quebec. The information contained in the inventory was used to provide different accounts of this expertise from perspectives such as geographical distribution or progress over time. Common types of expertise, complementarities, and specificities are some angles from which educational research expertise can be described.

• Data analysis
• Typology
• Differences
• Consult the inventory online
  

Data analysis
Analysis of data drawn from the Canadian Inventory of Funded Educational Research Projects first produced the general results below for the period spanning 2002 to 2006:
Close to 80% of educational research grants were awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to researchers in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.
A proportion of 77% of educational research projects funded by the SSHRC were conducted in English versus 23% conducted in French, of which 67% were conducted in Quebec.
In Quebec and New Brunswick, over 70% of research projects funded by the SSHRC involved teams of two or more researchers, while in the rest of Canada, this proportion was 57%.

Typology
The typology includes 45 sub-themes divided among six major themes. The occurrence and co-occurrence of sub-themes helped to identify the types of expertise developed. Further analysis of the data drawn from the Canadian Inventory of Funded Educational Research Projects yielded these findings on educational research expertise for the period spanning 2002 to 2006:
Teaching and Learning is the theme most frequently studied in Canada. A proportion of 59% of the 659 listed research projects funded by the SSHRC address one of the six sub-themes of this theme. In Quebec, 66% of the 149 research projects funded by the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) deal with this theme.
Teaching Practices and Education Management are two sub-themes of the Teaching and Learning theme studied in all the Canadian provinces.
The Teaching Practices sub-theme was identified as being part of the research topic of 37% of SSHRC listed grants, while the Learning and Cognition sub-theme was identified as being part of 21% of overall listed grants.
The most frequent SSHRC set of themes, identified 107 times, combines the Teaching Practices and Learning and Cognition sub-themes, followed by the Teaching Practices and Education Management set of themes identified 67 times.

Differences

• Differences across provinces were identified:
  • The Teaching Practices sub-theme is addressed in 50% of British Columbian and Nova Scotian funded research projects listed in the inventory. In the Prairie Provinces and in Ontario and Quebec, fewer than 37% of listed grants are associated with the development of a research expertise on this sub-theme.

• Regional specificities were identified:
  • As 14 SSHRC-funded research projects addressing the Education and Underprivileged Areas sub-theme were listed in the inventory, the researchers of six of these projects were awarded grants in Quebec. There is less research expertise on this sub-theme in British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta, and it seems to be non-existent in the other provinces.
  • Overall, 18 SSHRC-funded research projects addressing the Education and Aboriginal Settings sub-theme were listed in the inventory. For the most part, researchers from Ontario, British Columbia and the Prairies Provinces are the ones who developed research expertise on this sub-theme. In Quebec, only a single SSHRC-funded research project addressing the Education and Aboriginal Settings sub-theme was listed.
    
    
• Very few Legal Aspects of Education, Transition between Education Levels and Religious Education sub-themes were identified in the inventory as being part of the topics of SSHRC-funded educational research projects between 2002 and 2006.
  
  
• In the Teaching Subjects theme, Physical Education, Health Education and Sex Education and Citizenship Education were the most listed sub-themes, with 39% of the 296 SSHRC-funded research projects on this theme addressing either of these sub-themes.

Consult the inventory online

Since September 25, 2007, the inventory has been available online. Its Website can be browsed to access educational research projects funded by the SSHRC between 1992 and 2006 and projects funded by the FQRSC between 1990 and 2007. The Website includes a research tool using the research topic typology to quickly locate researchers working in these particular areas of expertise. Knowledge of the different types of expertise developed in education is essential for researchers across the country to network efficiently in order to give rise to new collaborative research projects and foster the development and scientific influence of Canada and Quebec.

 

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